Albuquerque
Project Area: 3,375 square feet
Complete Date: May 2007

The main organizing element of the Mark Pardo Hair Skin Body Salon is a series of tilted walls designed to emulate wiggling toes. The walls separate the salon from the spa spaces while alluring visitors through the small cut-out windows. The cut-out window pattern spells “ESCAPE” in Braille, a designer’s secret, which was the inspiration for the design concept. The spa lounge is identified from the retail space by the highly textured wall paneling and grass-embedded translucent panels. The spa lounge is accentuated by a round bench that divides the space into pre- and post-treatment areas. Seating nichos carved into the perimeter of the lounge afford patrons their own space in an environment rich with colors and textures that excite the senses.

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