Split program
A young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with businesses of this kind, the owners wanted their personalities reflected in a joint vision based on few but highly effective touches. They were looking for a singular experience full of potential for the odd, as the name of the enterprise suggests.

Infinite interiors
The arch in the existing wall was multiplied, giving rise to new partitions and creating the desired divisions between different activities, which are arranged along a gallery to make the most of the narrow premises. Hierarchy is achieved through the theatrical trick of the false perspective, in accordance with which successive arches decrease in proportion, producing the sense of depth of a Baroque artifice. The luminaires and the furniture elements—from hairdressing chairs and tattooing cots to cantilevering auxiliary worktopsؙ—are arranged along this enfilade.

Gray gamut
Capturing the dual nature of the business is the most elementary contrast of color palettes: black and white, for the rearmost wall and the front facade, respectively. In between comes a progressively darkening scale of three shades of gray. The overall game of illusions is thus reinforced by a play of color that holds the successive spaces together while marking them individually. The rest of the finishes also play a part: a cladding of gresite tiles which makes for easy-to-clean work surfaces, and plastic paint on the floors and walls to give the cult of the body a monochrome atmosphere.