Salon & Wellbeing
We know that hair, beauty, health, and wellness is a fast-changing and fiercely competitive landscape.
In a sector where brands are continually blurring the lines and exploring bold aesthetics, your space can be your differentiator.
Whether you’re launching a new venture, or you have an existing space that you know could work harder, we have the problem-solving prowess and creative edge to help you succeed. Our design experience spans the world of retail so you can trust us to see the bigger picture, creating an inspiring environment without compromising on commercial effectiveness.
How we can help you…
Create a visually captivating space that tells your brand story – finding the right aesthetic will help grow referrals and raise your profile online.
Meticulously plan your space so that you can serve clients efficiently and optimise the way you sell products and services. We can balance your commercial ambition with your creative vision.
Transform your customer experience by creating spaces that help people to relax, rejuvenate, escape from stress or connect with nature.
Selecting materials that create a compelling customer experience
What kind of materials best capture your brand? Concrete, metal and unfinished timber convey an industrial contemporary feel. Perhaps you’re looking for a warmer aesthetic, combining natural stone with biophilic design – injecting shapes and forms from the natural world. Our wide-ranging materials knowledge can help you distinguish your design direction as well as considering key factors like cost and durability.
Inspired by the industrial feel of the unit, our design for Vixen & Blush uses an intelligent mix of materials to create a current yet chic space. We combined exposed infrastructure – concrete floors and retained slab ceilings – with contrasting materials including marble worktops, solid oak frames plus bespoke metalwork and seating.
Maximising capacity without sacrificing creativity
We know that designing a visually striking space is crucial for creative businesses but whether you’re a salon, spa, beautician or barbershop, every square foot of space is an opportunity to serve clients and sell products. Our philosophy is about striking a balance between productivity, efficiency and customer experience. Every design has a floorplan, meticulously created to find the most effective layout – one that factors in customer touchpoints and the way you work.
Our re-design for award-winning salon Inanch London saw us review the layout of the entire salon, looking at customer flow, workstations, experience areas and point of purchase, as well as merchandising. We were able to transform the space into a luxurious, indulgent boutique salon, as well as accommodating two extra workstations and a new hairwash/ relaxation room.
Bringing your brand story to life
The leap into physical retail is a significant transition for any online business so we were delighted when this independent ecommerce skincare brand Soveral entrusted us with the responsibility of conceptualising their first physical store. We knew that to create a successful store concept we’d need to focus on bringing their brand to life.
The experience-led salon we designed is a great example of how to distil an existing business brand into a new physical space. A bespoke environment that reflects your values and personality will help you stand out in a space full of imitators – and you’ll cultivate lasting relationships with customers who buy in to your ethos.
What our customers think…
“Our new salon embodies our brand – it captures who we are perfectly.
We’re thrilled with the bespoke design and the new layout cleverly provides us with two extra workstations! For any salon owners looking to transform their interior, I would not hesitate to recommend Dean and the team at Retail Experience Design.”
“From our first meeting, Retail Experience Design completely understood what we wanted to achieve, where we were going as a business, and what we needed from our office design to get us there.
RED’s focus on defining our strategy and design brief made it easy for us to secure internal buy-in, showing our employees how the space would work for them as well as look.
The project has been exceptionally streamlined and the strategy, design and fit-out was delivered in just 12 weeks.
The team completely transformed this former restaurant, into an exceptional workspace – a true testament to RED’s stand-out design skills and the quality of experience across the whole team”
“Highly recommend Retail Experience Design to fellow professionals who are looking to transform their existing spaces into dynamic and engaging areas that students and staff can connect with and enjoy.
It has been great working with the team, and we are certainly pleased with the projects delivered to date!”
“The design knowledge and expertise that Retail Experience Design has was invaluable to us – it helped us to launch and push our new business venture forward.
Superbly functional, but also full of our personality, the RED team helped us create a design for our new dessert cafe that was aligned to our vision and importantly, to our budget.
Brilliant designers, highly recommended.”
“The design direction for our new store concept blew the usual optical shop fit specialists out of the water. Not only does our store look fantastic, it improves upon so many areas – it really feels like this store has been designed to reflect what we are all about as a forward-thinking optical business. If you’re considering a refit or a new practice, Retail Experience Design will definitely provide you with something different.”
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