A curious place for curious people. A salon is a room that depends on who enters it. John & Julius Salong in Hornstull is a 154 m² hidden salon — with an intimate stage for conversations and presentations, a Reflection Room for contemplative experiences, and a soundproof Music Room. The four classical elements — Air, Earth, Water and Fire — run through the whole: as a way of thinking about what a room can hold, and what it asks of the people inside.
The commission. I created the concept and took the full brief: spatial planning, furniture design, and site-specific textiles — all developed in close dialogue with the client. The space had good bones and no clear identity. My job was to give it one without overwriting it.
Textile as spatial surface. I use colour as a spatial tool — something that shapes how a room feels and how people move through it. The panels are hand-dyed linen: colour built in layers using fibre-reactive pigments, allowed to sink into the material rather than sit on top of it. Each gradient moves from deep, saturated tone to near transparency. The result is unrepeatable. The variations are small but decisive — they give the surface a pulse.
The textiles function as an architectural section. They show how a room can condense and dissolve without hard borders — defining space through colour shift rather than physical separation.
The panels are assembled using traditional pojagi seaming — a Korean technique where cloth is joined with invisible seams that reinforce both the material's precision and the presence of the hand. Light passes through. The panels divide without closing off. They change through the day: the darker sections create physical weight, a sense of anchoring; as the colour dissolves, lightness appears. Something close to quiet.
Here, colour is not an addition. It is the soft structure of the architecture. Ongoing commission, Hornstull 2026.
