Beauty parlour beautified by stainless steel

 

Ambika pillai is a renowned hair stylist in India. Her salons and her works stand apart from the rest of the industry. Ambika along with her partner Mohit had a concept to create a salon, which caters to the needs of today's generation and has a very trendy look. The particular salon in Delhi's Janak Puri is the biggest with the area of 4,750 sq.ft and has used about 0.5 tonnes of stainless steel for various interior decorative applications like pil-lar cladding, false ceiling, furniture etc. The design was done by I'US De-signers Combine and the fabrication by M/s Kaushal Engineers.

A lot of experimentation was involved as to what would be the look of today's generation and moving forward with the times. The materials selected had to make a very huge impact on the look of the salon as also retain the brand image. Hence certain materials like wood and mild steel were eliminated. The selection of stainless steel came after a lot of research on other materials. The elegance and strength of stainless steel led us to use it.Stainless steel is a true material for the needs of today. It also complimented the other materials used like the lexun sheet a product of GE Plastics,which till now was used only as a out door material and a substitute for glass. The flexibility of the material and translucency made it the perfect material to be used in the salon.

 

A section of the beauty parlour.

          

The lexun partition sheet is suspended from tyhe ceiling by SS lamp fixtures and lifted above the floor by SS multi-purpose stands.A close-up of a multi-purpose stand which serves as a table top,a magazine rack and a lamp to add glow to the partition sheet.

 

Beauty queen at the beauty parlour;Former Miss World and cine - actress Aishwarya Rai at the saloon.

The idea of giving a very modern and chic image to the interiors was achieved by the use of the above-mentioned two materials.

In the design process the number of partitions in the huge hall was found to be an obstruction, as the grandness and openness of the place was being taken away. The architects from M/s I'US Designers Combine decided to convert this problem into the main strength of the salon.The idea was to develop a partitioning system which lets your line of vision travel at the two main points - that is the floor and the ceiling - and not to have it blocked by an opaque partition material like wood, which is a very common material for partitions. Since the partition was to be suspended in the air, stainless steel stands were developed to suspend the material.

The flexibility of lexun sheet enabled us to curve it in different forms and tie it with bolts to the stainless steel stands on the floor. These stainless steel stands served the multiple purpose of supporting the sheet and also serving as a table top, a magazine rack and a lamp which threw light on the floor and gave a glow to the sheet. To support the sheet from the ceiling lamps were designed in a way that they supported the lexun sheet as well. A curved stainless steel pipe was used which was attached to a pie in the ceiling, the head of this pipe was a nut and the bolt passed through the lexun sheet supporting the system.

A door frame and doors were also made in stainless steel where the sheet was just sat in a groove in the door frame and the door was made of 3/4 square stainless steel pipe on which the lexun sheet was riveted


The columns were also done up in a very unique way.Curved fusion glass 20' x 60' was made, which sat in the niche created by the stainless steel column. The combination of blue fusion glass and the stainless steel column gave it a very unique look. The shampoo area was again done up in a very high tech way. The reception area has also got a very unique character.

The extensive use of stainless steel, the glowing lexun sheet and glass gave the salon a very unique character. The complete salon was made up in a very sleek way and nowhere one could see any bulky elements. The stations were also not mounted on walls but very thin elliptical sections in stainless steel were used to form the supporting system, which was then put up against the external glass of the building.

 

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