Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
This interior photograph presents a contemporary commercial space featuring a dramatic curved staircase as its central architectural element. The overall format is square, capturing approximately two stories of vertical space within a beauty salon interior. Beginning at the lower left corner, lush green palm fronds with long arching leaves extend upward, their color a fresh spring green that feels alive and slightly cool to the touch. The staircase dominates the composition, its most striking feature being the continuous curved balustrade and overhead soffit finished in a deep teal green, like the color of a peacock's neck feathers or polished malachite stone, rich and saturated with slight reflective sheen suggesting lacquered or automotive-quality paint finish. The stair treads appear to be light grey stone or terrazzo with subtle speckled texture, each step illuminated from beneath by a strip of soft white light creating a floating ethereal effect, the risers glowing like stacked luminous planes ascending in a gentle curve. Transparent glass panels form the inner balustrade, barely visible, allowing unobstructed views through the spiral. Moving to the upper portions, the ceiling is white and flat with recessed details, and multiple pendant lights descend through the stairwell void at various heights, spherical in shape and matching the teal green of the balustrade, emitting warm amber light from within. To the right of the staircase, the salon floor is visible with white walls, black cylindrical ceiling fixtures, and warm honey-toned wood paneling on a rear wall. Additional black linear track lighting creates subtle geometric patterns overhead. The overall atmosphere feels luxurious yet welcoming, the space bathed in a combination of warm accent lighting and cooler ambient illumination, suggesting a place of care and rejuvenation where the journey upward through this sculptural staircase becomes part of the transformative experience.
The key element of 365 Studio's interior is the stair with a green steel banister. Rounded shapes of the banister add some dynamics and continuity to space. The crucial aspect of 365 Studio's interior is its ergonomics and thoughtful logistics inside the space where up to five masters can work with the client at the same time. Good beauty studio reminds me of a pit stop in Formula-1 where a group of professionals change wheels and refuel a car within a couple of seconds. When masters are doing their business the customer feels calmness and trust.