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A crimped wooden screen with a triangular hole through its centre divides the spaces of this beauty salon in Osaka by Japanese designer Yusuke Seki (+ slideshow).

Yusuke Seki used a simple palette of wood and white paint to make the interior of the Kolmio+LIM salon reflect colours of natural skin tones, then added a selection of pastel colours reminiscent of nail polish.

“We designed the zigzag wall in white to represent the basic skin tone,” Seki told Dezeen. “Through shadow and light it creates more definition.”

The crimped wooden screen cuts the space into two sections, but also folds around a corner to line the edge of a sidewall. “The zigzag wall catches the natural light and evokes differences, like the skin and nail tone does,” added Seki.

A blue-painted feature wall provides a backdrop for the reception area, which features small wooden seats made from tree trunks and a wooden bookshelf.

This space opens into a main room with six wooden tables for nail treatments and two reclining chairs positioned off to the side for pedicure treatments.

Customers have to step through the triangular hole of the crimped wooden screen to access the beauty treatment area at the rear of salon.

Eyelash treatment chairs are separated by shimmering gold curtains that are partially transparent, while a pale pink feature wall with additional mirrors creates an extra seating area.

The pastel colours chosen for the walls reference coloured buildings in the surrounding neighbourhood, while a linear grid of wooden blocks creates a parquet floor.

Photography is by Takumi Ota.

Here’s a project description from Yusuke Seki:

The Nail Salon Kolmio+LIM

The Nail Salon is designed with iconic triangle division as it reflected the meaning of “Kolmio”.

“Kolmio+LIM” is a nail salon located in Osaka, the western capital of Japan, which is where our client LIM started her first hair salon. They have since expanded their beauty business. “Kolmio” is taken from the name (kolmio+LIM) the Nail Salon means triangle in Finish.

The store layout of basic wood and white has been designed to reflect the essential colour of natural skin tones, and the space itself is intended to symbolise the process of nail colouring. The zigzag wall and natural lighting refraction make references to the twinkle glitter reflection of nail polish, and the colour themes of the design represent the various layers of nail polish applied one after another.

Yusuke based the design, of various tones of white, upon basic natural human nail colours. He tried to express the Japanese proverb “Diverse men, diverse minds”, which directly translates as ‘ten people have ten different colour’; as every person has their own skin colour as a base for colouring, to bring a new personality by adding layer upon layer of beauty work requires precision by the nailist.

The coloured walls take their inspiration from the neighbourhood buildings just outside the window, as a way of incorporating the surrounding aesthetics, as part of an overall interior design theme. “Kolmio” is originally an intricate triangle decoration. This stores’ dynamic shapes are inspired by kolnio and possess an iconic value, as well as providing a functional division through the centre of the space. All of the design methods are inspired by there environment, and the actions all happened surroundings.

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Japanese designer Yusuke Seki and Spanish designer Jaime Hayón have designed a sweet shop in Yokohama where colourful liquids are displayed inside glass decanters, ready to be made into confectionary before customers’ eyes.

Seki designed the interior of the Papabubble store, while Hayón designed the glass containers, utensils and window details.

The interior walls are covered with white tiles that were sourced to match the 40-year-old ones that clad the exterior of the building.

Windows shaped as diamonds and octagons are arranged in rows across the doors like chocolates laid out in a tray.

Dezeen filmed an interview with Jaime Hayón during the 2010 London Design Festival – watch it here.

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Photography is by Takumi Ota.

Here’s some more text from the designers:

Papabubble the artisan candy shop in Yokohama was designed by Japanese designer Yusuke Seki collaboration with Jaime Hayon.

Papabubble – Caramels Artesans started in Barcelona in 2004, and has since launched all over the world. The candies are all hand made, and shows the process of making candy for a customer, and in doing so, entertaining kids and adult viewers alike.

The shop design resembles a laboratory, and shows off the finely presented handmade look of these experimental candies.

“Papabubble ” Yokohama launch:

Yokohama brunch is the third shop in Japan. The difference between this shop and most others is that it is especially design focused. Up until now, Papabubble shop has been a designed based on a laboratory style. However, this latest store was designed by Yusuke Seki with Jaime Hayon, and you can trace their strong and unique design values in the fine decorative details of the work. The location is an office area in Yokohama – a bay nearby Tokyo – and the store was lacerated street level of a building which was built about forty years ago, which meant Seki needed to embark upon extensive renovation to the building.

In emphasizing the new aspects of this design, Seki managed to create a strong correlation between INSIDE / OUTSIDE method.

Not only designing focus on interior design as physical territory of place to illuminate, but also Yusuke was integrate all relevant material such as location, architecture skin, time.

Using same element retrospectively, Yusuke create explore and cross over time scale but also interior wall are being part of facade and continually.

For the purposes of continuity, Seki found and used the same tile material which was use on out side wall forty year ago.This helps the outside wall for the interior wall, helping to ensure the authentic facade of the original building.

Because Seki’s space are seems simplicity and design focus on presence of space, Jaime took on the challenge of decorating the space in a way that added a stronger sense of character and identity. Ordinarily, Papabubble stores use laboratory tools to demonstrate the experimental process of making candy, but on this occasion Jaime design these tools deliberately with more personality and defined detail such as windows, utensils. Bottles are designed by Jaime, was inspired from the performance of candy by artisans.

Especially the bottles are normally icon of Papabubble store, but this time, these are one-off original made by Massimo Lunardon from venice.

These stunning crystal glasses are coloured by range type of liquid, this made the difference of design from other Papabubble brunch in all over the world.

Client: Papabubble
Art Direction, Interior design: Yusuke Seki
Furniture Design: Jaime Hayon

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