The reception desk is a long slab of marble, product glowing on the wall behind it, and it tells you what kind of place you have walked into. Lavada sits on Hunter Street, in the heritage waterfront pocket of Hobart near the old wharves. It works both sides of the skin equation, cosmetic aesthetics and dermal therapies on one hand, spa treatments and massage on the other. So you can come for results or come to switch off, or book both and call it a morning well spent. The setting is polished without trying too hard. Old bricks, new skin.