Hair apparent

摘要

Designers get commissioned for jobs in all sorts of ways, but the story of how Japanese architect Makoto Yamaguchi landed a project to design the interior of the Kilico hair salon in Tokyo's trendy Daikanyama neighbourhood has to be the coolest, if also one of the briefest: 'The client just walked past my studio, came in and said, "I want you do design my hair salon just like your studio'," says Yamaguchi. From the off, the creative vision of architect and client was as one. 'Right from the planning stage, I was able to share with my client the image of what the space would look like,' says Yamaguchi. 'They wanted a space like a modern art gallery. And communication about the design went very smoothly.'