Parisian chic meets modern elegance: Upscale hair salon BRUNEBLONDE reimagined by design studio OneSpace

Designed and created by Hong Kong’s acclaimed integrated-design studio One Space, BRUNEBLONDE brings Parisian luxury to the Grand Hyatt Hotel Hong Kong with its opening. Founded by celebrated hairstylists Roland Boutin and David Gouygou, BRUNEBLONDE provides a refined luxury salon experience, to which its discerning clientele is accustomed.

The salon is the latest credit to One Space’s impressive list of luxury commercial, retail and residential projects created for its sophisticated clients - from high-net-worth client spaces for the most prestigious private banks, to exquisitely tailored executive suites and sumptuous residences. The architects worked closely alongside Boutin and Gouygou, who have achieved international recognition for their innovative and distinctive approach to hair styling, to create a world-class salon that provides the very best for fashion-conscious clients from around the world.

“The salon required an intimate interior of world-class ambitions, for which we created a sumptuous Parisian ‘appartement’ setting – a modern reinterpretation of that city’s 1940’s-era grand salon interiors. The space exudes a sophisticated yet comfortable apartment look-and-feel, whilst satisfying the sometimes demanding conditions that any hair and beauty establishment entails”, remarked One Space’s architect co-founder Greg Pearce.

The Grand Hyatt’s lobby is bolstered by the salon’s presence, with the main event found through a transparent frontage wherein crafted timber wall panelling in anthracite and white loosely defines the Reception area’s boundaries, integrated with deep-set and internally lit voids for the display of the salon’s custom-formulated hair and skin-care.

The lighting of the salon is carefully designed to achieve perfect colour rendition and shadowless illumination, essential for the precision of the stylists’ craft, whilst generating a relaxing customer experience. Featuring two distinct areas, women’s and men’s styling, the former characterised by its simple, elegant ambience, with white leather chairs on natural grey limestone floors.

The men’s area is reminiscent of the classic barber shop, modernised to suggest a more sophisticated take on the traditional haircut experience - a deliberate departure from the women’s area, it invokes elements of masculinity in robustly detailed timber paneling, charcoal leather walls, chrome detailing, oak floors and wonderfully gadgety sinks that appear from discreet pull down cupboards in the wall, so you need never leave your plush leather seat.

From the reception area an 8m long wall of hand-crafted, highly-polished copper mediates between the hectic pace of the outside world and the soothing tranquillity of the salon’s inner sanctuary. Along the opposite wall, a flowing, line-drawn mural created by Italian artists Vittorio Locatelli and Carlo Ninchi mysteriously reflects in the contrasting copper surface.