Granny.F by Hiroyuki Miyake
Architect Hiroyuki Miyake used a traditional English bricklaying pattern for the ceramic tiles on the walls of this beauty salon in Toyokawa, Japan.
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"I tried to express alternative nostalgia by using glossy colourful tiles instead bricks," Miyake told Dezeen.
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Displaying a graduated pattern of autumn colours, the tiles line the inside of the shampoo area and also clad the building's exterior.
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A partition that separates the styling and shampoo areas features doorways that copy the rhythm of the windows opposite.
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The are no tiles on the walls of the styling area, where free-standing mirrors are arranged in a line and naked light bulbs hang on copper fixings overhead.
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This isn't the first salon we've featured by Hiroyuki Miyake, following one with a zigzagging steel screen.
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Photographs are by Rikoh Adachi.
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Here's a description from Hiroyuki Miyake:
Beauty salon "Granny.F" designed by Hiroyuki Miyake
This beauty salon is located in Toyokawa , Aichi , Japan. It was renovated from the existing empty building.
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Although the outer wall of tiling is carried out based on the British brick pattern, it is expressing coexistence of tradition and novel by the gradation pattern, and rich gloss.
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The sun takes for sinking and the tile loses own color gradually. However, instead, it becomes one big background which projects the expression of a town which always changes, such as the sky at sunset and a headlight of the car which goes a passage.
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By suppressing the lighting to an outer wall side, the light from the window arranged at equal intervals is emphasized, and a homely atmosphere is expressed by showing an internal situation in fragments.
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The tile which is visible to the opening side of an outer wall or a partition wall is settled like "skin", and the gray space is emphasizing "inner side."
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The pendant light of the naked light bulb hung at random has given shiny and coloring into the space arranged symmetrically.
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The pendant lights are covered with copper leaf.
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Internal styling area is changed completely with the exterior, and the space of dim mortar gray spreads. This is a place which creates beauty and the leading role is a person to the last. Space is positioning that it is only a background.
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A shampoo area is positioning called the exterior, being in an inside by choosing the same tile as an outer wall.
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The gradation of a tile and indirect lighting wraps people in a rich feeling of tolerance.
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People experience various services and spend a relax time while going those space back and forth.
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