Architect Sam Jacob has overhauled a hairdressers-cum-gallery in southeast London, so now customers stare at artworks rather than their reflections while they get a trim. More about Sam Jacob designs Peckham hair salon where clients look at artwork instead of themselves
Sections of bright turquoise paintwork and matching furniture offset the otherwise white-washed treatment rooms of this Bangkok spa, designed by local architecture studio Space Popular. More about Turquoise paintwork and wire-frame furniture enliven Bangkok spa by Space Popular
The Rue Saint-Honoré offices of skincare brand Aesop have been transformed by Benjamin Paulin into a temporary space for facial appointments and treatments. More about Aesop's Paris offices converted into temporary treatment rooms
Visitors to this hair salon in Taiwan all sit face-to-face around one long table, which was custom-made by local studio Soar Design. More about Customers arranged around one communal table inside Taiwanese hair salon
The bold colours and geometric shapes used throughout this hair salon in Melbourne are based on the works of postmodernist designer Ettore Sottsass. More about Adriana Hanna designs Sottsass-inspired interior for Melbourne hair salon
Japanese studio Sides Core has created a space inside a hair salon for the owner's books, art and music (+ slideshow). More about Sides Core redesigns minimal hair salon to include library
The pieces of multi-tonal stone used to construct this spa resort in southwest China by Kengo Kuma give the complex a pixelated appearance (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma completes Chinese spa resort with pixellated stonework
Sheets of plywood were layered on top of each other to create the ceiling of this Parisian salon, which local architect Joshua Florquin designed to represent sunny forests and natural environments (+ slideshow). More about Joshua Florquin adds hexagonal-patterned ceiling to Paris hair salon
Wülser Bechtel Architekten has completed a male hair groomers in Zurich featuring a pair of sculptural mirrors and a floor that reveals traces of the building's history (+ slideshow). More about Sculptural mirrors frame spaces in Zurich barbershop by Wülser Bechtel Architekten
Japanese houses are a perennial favourite with Dezeen readers, but the country's architects also apply similar design principles to hair salon interiors.
Examples include a minimal salon in Osaka with space for just one customer, a hairdresser's divided with plants and mirrored screens, and a beautician's featuring crimped screens and golden curtains. See more Japanese hair salons »
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There is room for just one customer at a time in this minimally furnished Osaka hair salon, which Japanese studio Sides Core claims was inspired by the principles of mountain climbing (+ slideshow). More about Minimal hair salon by Sides Core accommodates just one customer at a time
Nan Arquitectos has used a muted material and colour palette to evoke feelings of peace and calm at this combined physiotherapy and beauty centre in northwest Spain (+ slideshow). More about Nan Arquitectos selects pale palette to relax visitors at SanaSana physiotherapy centre
Oak boards cover the chamfered entrance to this hair and beauty salon in Osaka, renovated by Okuwada Architects Office to look like a cave (+ slideshow). More about Okuwada gives Mook salon in Osaka an oak-panelled makeover
Students from the Institute of Architecture and Design Chihuahua have used scaffolding, wood and fabric to turn a disused park fountain into a shaded urban spa for local residents (+ slideshow). More about Students use scaffolding to build Urban Spa in a Mexican park
A matrix of disorientating translucent and mirrored partitions frame the individual booths of this hairdressing salon in Japan by Takehiko Nez Architects (+ slideshow). More about Takehiko Nez divides up a hair salon with mirrors, translucent screens and plants
This small hair salon in Osaka features a series of ceiling hooks that allow the owner to rearrange the mirrors and shelves that help define the space (+ slideshow). More about Mirrors hang from cables in Japanese hair salon by Sides Core
Young Japanese architect Cohta Asano created a new space for a hairdresser inside an existing building in Iwaki, adding a steel frame to support angular wooden shelves and partitions (+ slideshow). More about Cohta Asano divides Japanese hair salon with diamond-shaped partitions
Architecture office FREAKS freearchitects has revamped the Paris tattoo and piercing parlour TribalAct to include a system of curtain tracks printed with Hieronymus Bosch paintings (+ slideshow). More about FREAKS freearchitects redesigns Parisian tattoo parlour to avoid "cheesy" aesthetic
Swedish studio Sweco Architects has covered the ceiling of this hair salon in Umeå with 85 green MDF boxes. More about Green boxes pattern the ceiling of Clip Drop In hair salon by Sweco Architects
A crimped wooden screen with a triangular hole through its centre divides the spaces of this beauty salon in Osaka by Japanese designer Yusuke Seki (+ slideshow). More about Beauty salon by Yusuke Seki features crimped screens and golden curtains