Need Salon
280 E Broad St. Rochester, NY
2019
Interior Design
Subdued | Organic | Grounding
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The client’s goal was to open a salon that placed value in getting a professional hair coloring experience, by implementing a sense of community, and creating transparency in beauty processes they practice. The space balances social and private zones, which accommodate all occupants from employees to clients, who all have varying sensitivity to these personal processes.
The goal of transparency to stylists meant allowing clients to be fully immersed in and aware of the beauty and coloring processes. To us, as designers, we wondered how we can conceptually achieve this goal through design. An open floor plan concept was originally presented by the client, however, we concluded that some separation of space was necessary, and a semi-transparent screen wall was an aesthetically pleasing solution, physically and conceptually. A beautiful millwork piece that grounds the salon, and breaks up the space without solid walls, creates a landing place for the central hub that is the color bar, and gives privacy to the steps of the process that are more vulnerable, such as washing stations.
Arches and rounded architectural forms, where there are solid walls in the space, work together, creating an ode to neoclassicism, while tone-on-tone colors and tactile textures give the space its modern feel. Staach worked with the client’s interior stylist, Hannah Betts, of Lives Styled, to develop a mood, color palette, and finish schedule.
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