Spanish architecture practice Laura Ortín Arquitectura has designed a saloon that serves for microblading, a permanent eyebrow makeup technique that is performed using tiny needles to fill in desired areas with color.

Located in the heart of Murcia, Spain, the 100-square-metre space, called Tinezzova Saloon, functions as a store and microblading saloon as well as other aesthetic services

Poetics of ruins.

“Nothing is as beautiful as the ruins of a beautiful thing” – Auguste Rodin.

Describing its etymology, the studio explains that Micro is a prefix derived from ancient Greek meaning “small.” Blading is from English, specifically the union of the word “blade” (means edge or blade) and the suffix “-ing” (gerund).

Their client, an expert in this procedure that goes back to a traditional Japanese technique called “tebori”, decided to open a store in the heart of the city of Murcia.

lthough the center has a wide range of aesthetic services it is specialized in microblading, this provides the project with certain singularities.

The leitmotiv of the proposal is the connection between the use of the premises and the idealized representation of beauty. The cult of the body, beauty, symmetry, curves, the poetic, etc., are ideas that connect function and form. As the pre-existing premises did not provide any relevant architectural element or character, we had to make up it. The proposal recreates aesthetics and designs with classic memories (in ruins) in contemporary spaces. Textures cut into curved walls, travertine countertops with irregular finishes, soft and light fabrics, furniture with golden touches, a “dome” at the end of the route.