Russell Place is a bluestone laneway most people walk straight past, which makes finding Saint Louie feel like being let in on something. The salon runs tall and lofty, a mezzanine folded into the volume so the room reads more like a gallery or an atelier than a place you get your hair done. Light pours down through the height of it. Downstairs the work happens, upstairs the space just breathes. It is the kind of considered, art-leaning interior that tells you the cut is going to be considered too. A hair studio that treats the room as part of the craft. Find the laneway. The rest takes care of itself.

Saint Louie Hair, Melbourne CBD
A lofty hair studio on Russell Place, a bluestone laneway most people walk past. Mezzanine, gallery light, and cuts as considered as the room they happen in.

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