Pink pillar draws focus at Hideout beauty salon by Me?nard Dworkind
A sculptural pink column forms shelves for nail polishes in this Montreal beauty salon designed by local studio Ménard Dworkind, which also features hacked pink armchairs and IKEA sinks as foot baths.
Ménard Dworkind created the 650-square-foot (60-square-metres) Hideout on the ground-floor of a new condominium building in the city's Griffintown neighbourhood.
The architecture and design team had a limited budget, and so sought ways "to get creative and invest in strategic places". The main splurge was the decorative pink-painted MDF structure in the middle of the salon, which disguises a large concrete column.
Vertical spines curve outwards towards the top, where greenery pokes out. Horizontal struts are slotted in between, creating nooks in the middle of the structure for bare wooden shelves and a mirrored beauty counter.
"The central column was dressed with a CNC-cut floral form that grows up and onto the ceiling," Ménard Dworkind told Dezeen. "This central structure was designed to contain nail polish displays, make up stations and storage."
The design was modelled using Google Sketchup software, then its individual components were laid out in AutoCAD before sent to the computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting machine. The method helped the studio to ensure that no material was wasted.
A similar process was also used for the matching pink laser-cut steel counters, which splay out behind the MDF installation t...
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