A house, not a salon — built around the unhurried hour, the right light, and a small bench of artisans who actually remember your name.”
We opened in a converted loft on Marlowe Lane in 2014 with a stubborn idea: that beauty work is, at its best, a quiet conversation between hands and time. We don't double-book. We don't rush the rinse. We don't put a television in the chair.
What we do is make twelve hours in your year feel like a small, restorative correction. Your colour is mixed by the person applying it. Your facial is built around the skin in the room that day — not the one in the booking note. Our products come from a short, traceable list of houses we know personally; many we blend ourselves in the apothecary at the back.
The result, we hope, is the rarest thing in this category: a place where the work is meticulous and the room is calm. Come once, slowly. We will be here.
Each treatment is a finished thing — a beginning, a middle, an end. Prices begin where we begin; we will quote you exactly before we lift a brush.
A complete circuit through the house — face, hands, breath, scalp. The treatment people return for, in three considered acts.
A loft on Marlowe Lane — six treatment rooms, an open apothecary, and the light it took us nine months to find.
Four-and-a-half thousand visits a year, and these are the sentences people send afterwards.
I left feeling like a softer version of myself. The light, the scent, the quiet — they get every detail right, and they remember.
I've been booking with Solène for three years. It is not a salon visit, it is a small, well-made recalibration of the week.
The signature ritual is the most considered ninety minutes I spend each month. I have started giving them as wedding gifts.
We hire slowly — for taste, patience and the ability to leave a room calmer than it was found.
A converted loft on Marlowe Lane, a five-minute walk from Franklin Street station. The door is the small black one beside the bookshop.
If your question is not here, the telephone is the fastest way. We always answer.
A small, calm, well-made hour — built around you and the day you walked in with.
A real person will write back within the hour to confirm.