Portuguese studio Nuno Capa have completed the interiors for a hair salon in Braga, Portugal, featuring translucent curtains to partition the space into smaller zones.
Designed for hairdresser Pedro Remy, exposed concrete features throughout the New Room salon and the areas requiring a bit more privacy are divided using corrugated metal.
Double height curtains running on circular tracks enclose workstations to create semi-private booths.
The salon also functions as a training academy.
Photographs are by Rui Pires.
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Here's some more information from the graphic designer João Loureiro:
New Room is the latest space of the Portuguese hairdresser Pedro Remy. Hosted in the city of Braga, this innovative space designed by the architect Nuno Capa, it’s contemporary and minimalist.
Aiming to keep sight of the initial construction raw elements such as structural elements in concrete, these dialogues with the intervention of new fixed elements, ensuring the visual balance of a relaxing, comfortable and informal environment. It promotes the spatial fluidity for those who circulate, giving a special and different character to the workroom.
Alongside innovation, New Room offers an extensive menu of hairdressing and aesthetical services, targeted to customers who worry about their image and looking for new trends.
Our stylists are internally trained by our own academy to ensure a high quality service, always directing their attention to the customer’s life concept, personality, personal habits, appearance and hair type. This workspace is also a training academy, aiming to support all hairdressing and make-up professionals.
In the schedule is already a plan for continuous and quality training in the area of new methods and practical techniques. The business training in management of hairdressers, leadership and motivation of teams, marketing, among others, will enhance the diversity of educational knowledge offer, differentiation factors and enhance today’s professionals.
We advocate an equal degree of knowledge for all professionals, in order to glamorize this as one of the most important artistic interventions in the area of beauty that comes with the past, present and future of human civilization.
New Room is a new change, modernity and sharing knowledge for everyone's future. We want to maximize the value of the concept and lifestyle for all our customers.
Project: New Room
Client: Pedro Remy
Architect: Nuno Capa
Design: João Loureiro
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Great hairsaloon, in Portugal or What ?
Fantastic concept, for real.
Yes, in Braga (Portugal).
It looks like a laboratory. Nice places for people must be warmer.
agreed, why do interior designers think hairdressers are a place where you need to be dehumanising and radical?
I guess the most important thing in a hairdresser is people's hair – that's why the mirror is the centerpiece in this kind of interior project. Privacy is often a requirement from the clients – this project brilliantly sorted out that with the curtains. A hairdresser saloon, in it's daily life, is also quite messy…I would say nearly chaotic… Hair on the floor, different smells in the air, diferent people doing diferent things… try it in a friday night and you will understand what I mean… in the end, this apparent "dehumanization" that Felix mentions will be "filled up" with the "hairdressing day by day spectacle". For me, this radical look, more than just a designer neuroses, it's the designer taking the humble and wise decision to allow the daily life of this kind of place to happen and flow in a good uncluttered way. In my opinion this guys did it brilliantly in this project. My congratulations to the arch and the designer
totally agree
Hairdressers are a quite messy ambient. Try it in a friday evening and you will understand what I mean… I guess the apparent "dehumanisation" is actually the designer taking the humble and wise decision to allow the daily "hairdressing spectacle" to happen and flow here in a unclutered nice way…
The curtains remind me massively of Phillipe Starck's design for the spa at Sanderson Hotel, London.
What ? That noise hotel withe a lote of things and colors ? You say it s the same architecture ? That Work is boring, this is new concept and minimal. Nice idea, great Work.
Very elegant solution.
I love it!!! Good Job!!! Congratulations to the Architect and the owner of the hair dresser to said yes to such a different but very wonderful plaice. Good Job Portugal!
Does someone know the name of the lamp used in this project? Thanks.