Chiseled, Bentleigh Salon Interior Project, Commercial Development, Architecture Images
Chiseled Hair in Bentleigh, Melbourne
Hair Salon Interior Project in Victoria, Australia – design by OLSK and Elvin Tan Design
29 Nov 2019
Chiseled Hair
Architects: OLSK and Elvin Tan Design
Location: Bentleigh, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Chiseled Hair is a hair salon founded on a coworking-style model

Founder of OLSK, Jared King noticed there was an opportunity for hair professionals to come together to offer a unique and expanded service, while reducing overheads and construction costs.

The new space brings together not one, but four individual hair professionals into one salon environment. As a collective, all the new co-owners could pool resources and reduce individual costs while making for a more robust business model, one that is tried and tested in the co-working model. King says: ?the owners have all come together and now they have created a new business where they?re all partners.?
The brief that OLSK developed was about ?defining their brand through the architecture and interiors,? King shares. The name for the new salon ? Chiseled ? came from the group and formed the starting point for concept development. ?We thought about the notion of construction, and the main design theory was then based around layers, texture and colour, which directly relates to the process of hair cutting and styling.?

In terms of space planning and layouts, the large salon space has ...