A Striking Hair Salon, With Custom Furniture and Design-Led Fittings, Is on a Mission To Recycle All Its Waste
A swish new hair salon with a aim on sustainability has opened up in Ashburton. Founder Tara-Lee Mitchell experienced been hairdressing for 15 many years – again household in New Zealand and here in Melbourne – just before launching the personalized-created studio.
“I normally needed to establish my dream salon,” she claims. “Finding the right inside designer who truly loved what we were being undertaking was a massive factor way too.”
Mitchell took more than the double-storey Higher Avenue shop two yrs back, before finalising her eyesight and commissioning inside designer Danielle Brustman to direct the revamp. The outcome is a light-filled place with pops of pastels and outstanding yellow tones.
“We really wanted yellow to play a component in the branding, but did not want it to be cartoonish,” claims Mitchell. “We desired it to be complex and distinctive … I preferred the room to be very various from other salons.”
You are going to discover a quirky multi-globe gentle fixture built by Entler overlooking a mustard-tiled front desk. There’s a big curved wall made of tiles provided by stoneware organization Artedomus sitting along with six Maletti basins imported from Italy.
Soon after a wash and a scalp therapeutic massage, you are going to be taken to one of 13 innovative workstations adorned with tiled benches and teardrop-formed mirrors, and divided by clear yellow partitions.
“A good deal of the customized home furniture Danielle developed herself,” Mitchell tells Broadsheet. One particular item is the curved edge, pentagonal timber table upstairs, which is surrounded by retro-influenced lilac chairs from Daniel Emma. “[The table] has USB ports, so company can set up there and perform though they wait,” she states.
What sets Mitch Studio apart is its dedication to sustainability. It’s element of social business Sustainable Salons Australia, which donates its proceeds to foodstuff-rescue organisations Ozharvest and Kiwiharvest.
The Sustainable Salons initiative allows Mitch Studio recycle up to 95 per cent of its waste – by composting hair and utilizing it to soak up oil spills. It also separates elements this sort of as plastics, paper and aluminium, and it filters chemical squander to be produced into asphalt.
Mitch Studio also works by using Davines hair products, which Mitchell says are “low toxic and vegan-friendly”.
“Our future phase is hopefully offsetting all of the carbon in the salon,” she claims. “I’m truly in the process of working with Davines to do that now.”
Mitch Studio
166 High Avenue, Ashburton
(03) 9813 8715
Hours:
Tue & Thu 10am–9pm
Wed, Fri & Sat 10am–5pm