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Onico Salon, Osaka, Japan
Japan's healthy obsession with beauty salons has produced yet another gem - this time in Osaka's Kamishinden prefecture. Japanese architect Ryo Isobe has stripped the space bare, using its minimalist simplicity as a base around which to build Onica Salon's magical world. The unusual brief was to emulate an abandoned factory, in ruins that had been overtaken by a forest and its many hidden treasures. To that end, the most striking elements of the interior are the birch trees dotted around antique chairs and bespoke mirrors in the hairdressing section of the salon. These complement the selection of found objects and mismatched lamps hanging from the ceiling (natural elements and rough, unpolished surfaces are recurring themes in the architect's work). Isobe also created separate areas with definite identities, such as the shampoo lounge, constructed as a intimate grotto-like room with burgundy walls. These secluded spaces are connected to the main hall by vintage doors and rusty balustrades.
Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Japan; T: 816. 6170 7854; www.onico.jp
Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Onico Salon, Osaka, Japan
Japan's healthy obsession with beauty salons has produced yet another gem - this time in Osaka's Kamishinden prefecture. Japanese architect Ryo Isobe has stripped the space bare, using its minimalist simplicity as a base around which to build Onica Salon's magical world. The unusual brief was to emulate an abandoned factory, in ruins that had been overtaken by a forest and its many hidden treasures. To that end, the most striking elements of the interior are the birch trees dotted around antique chairs and bespoke mirrors in the hairdressing section of the salon. These complement the selection of found objects and mismatched lamps hanging from the ceiling (natural elements and rough, unpolished surfaces are recurring themes in the architect's work). Isobe also created separate areas with definite identities, such as the shampoo lounge, constructed as a intimate grotto-like room with burgundy walls. These secluded spaces are connected to the main hall by vintage doors and rusty balustrades.
Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Japan; T: 816. 6170 7854; www.onico.jp
Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Onico Salon, Osaka, Japan
Japan's healthy obsession with beauty salons has produced yet another gem - this time in Osaka's Kamishinden prefecture. Japanese architect Ryo Isobe has stripped the space bare, using its minimalist simplicity as a base around which to build Onica Salon's magical world. The unusual brief was to emulate an abandoned factory, in ruins that had been overtaken by a forest and its many hidden treasures. To that end, the most striking elements of the interior are the birch trees dotted around antique chairs and bespoke mirrors in the hairdressing section of the salon. These complement the selection of found objects and mismatched lamps hanging from the ceiling (natural elements and rough, unpolished surfaces are recurring themes in the architect's work). Isobe also created separate areas with definite identities, such as the shampoo lounge, constructed as a intimate grotto-like room with burgundy walls. These secluded spaces are connected to the main hall by vintage doors and rusty balustrades.
Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Japan; T: 816. 6170 7854; www.onico.jp
Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Onico Salon, Osaka, Japan
Japan's healthy obsession with beauty salons has produced yet another gem - this time in Osaka's Kamishinden prefecture. Japanese architect Ryo Isobe has stripped the space bare, using its minimalist simplicity as a base around which to build Onica Salon's magical world. The unusual brief was to emulate an abandoned factory, in ruins that had been overtaken by a forest and its many hidden treasures. To that end, the most striking elements of the interior are the birch trees dotted around antique chairs and bespoke mirrors in the hairdressing section of the salon. These complement the selection of found objects and mismatched lamps hanging from the ceiling (natural elements and rough, unpolished surfaces are recurring themes in the architect's work). Isobe also created separate areas with definite identities, such as the shampoo lounge, constructed as a intimate grotto-like room with burgundy walls. These secluded spaces are connected to the main hall by vintage doors and rusty balustrades.
Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Japan; T: 816. 6170 7854; www.onico.jp
Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Onico Salon, Osaka, Japan
Japan's healthy obsession with beauty salons has produced yet another gem - this time in Osaka's Kamishinden prefecture. Japanese architect Ryo Isobe has stripped the space bare, using its minimalist simplicity as a base around which to build Onica Salon's magical world. The unusual brief was to emulate an abandoned factory, in ruins that had been overtaken by a forest and its many hidden treasures. To that end, the most striking elements of the interior are the birch trees dotted around antique chairs and bespoke mirrors in the hairdressing section of the salon. These complement the selection of found objects and mismatched lamps hanging from the ceiling (natural elements and rough, unpolished surfaces are recurring themes in the architect's work). Isobe also created separate areas with definite identities, such as the shampoo lounge, constructed as a intimate grotto-like room with burgundy walls. These secluded spaces are connected to the main hall by vintage doors and rusty balustrades.
Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Japan; T: 816. 6170 7854; www.onico.jp
Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Onico Salon, Osaka, Japan
Japan's healthy obsession with beauty salons has produced yet another gem - this time in Osaka's Kamishinden prefecture. Japanese architect Ryo Isobe has stripped the space bare, using its minimalist simplicity as a base around which to build Onica Salon's magical world. The unusual brief was to emulate an abandoned factory, in ruins that had been overtaken by a forest and its many hidden treasures. To that end, the most striking elements of the interior are the birch trees dotted around antique chairs and bespoke mirrors in the hairdressing section of the salon. These complement the selection of found objects and mismatched lamps hanging from the ceiling (natural elements and rough, unpolished surfaces are recurring themes in the architect's work). Isobe also created separate areas with definite identities, such as the shampoo lounge, constructed as a intimate grotto-like room with burgundy walls. These secluded spaces are connected to the main hall by vintage doors and rusty balustrades.
Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Japan; T: 816. 6170 7854; www.onico.jp
Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Bold Brows
The dreadful trend of over-tweezed, tadpole shaped eyebrows is well and truly over. Bold, bushy brows dominated the catwalks of the S/S13 and A/W13 shows, and with model Cara Delevigne at the forefront of the big brow takeover, there's no better time to retire your tweezers and go au naturel. Here's our edit of the best eyebrow tints, eyebrow pencils and growing aids, to make sure your brows are bang on trend this year...
Writer: Romy van den Broeke; Photography: Jason Lloyd Evans
Bold Brows
The dreadful trend of over-tweezed, tadpole shaped eyebrows is well and truly over. Bold, bushy brows dominated the catwalks of the S/S13 and A/W13 shows, and with model Cara Delevigne at the forefront of the big brow takeover, there's no better time to retire your tweezers and go au naturel. Here's our edit of the best eyebrow tints, eyebrow pencils and growing aids, to make sure your brows are bang on trend this year...
Writer: Romy van den Broeke; Photography: Jason Lloyd Evans
BareMinerals Brow Colour and Brow Brush
Eyebrow pencils can sometimes produce a look that is a little severe, so this eyebrow duo is designed to give a more natural finish. An earthy mineral colour and defining brow brush work together to fill in patchy or thinning brows.
Brow Colour, £11; Brow Brush, £10; www.bareminerals.co.uk
Writer: Romy van den Broeke
BareMinerals Brow Colour and Brow Brush
Eyebrow pencils can sometimes produce a look that is a little severe, so this eyebrow duo is designed to give a more natural finish. An earthy mineral colour and defining brow brush work together to fill in patchy or thinning brows.
Brow Colour, £11; Brow Brush, £10; www.bareminerals.co.uk
Writer: Romy van den Broeke
