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S.A.D’s Hair Design takes the no-getting-up-from-seat policy seriously. You don’t go to the washbasin – it comes to you.

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S.A.D’s Hair Design takes the no-getting-up-from-seat policy seriously. You don’t go to the washbasin – it comes to you.

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Not moving your butt at your hairdresser’s has reached a new high, thanks to two Japanese men: Katsuto Akimichi (aka Aki), salon director of S.A.D’s Hair Design at RV Point; and manager Yoshinobu Hiyama (Yoshi). What makes their space – which opened in January this year – different from others: It’s designed to use limited real estate well (the salon is small, and can only accommodate two customers at a time), and make lazy bones lazier – in other words, every hair appointment is as pleasurable as possible. 

The innovation is thanks to two Takara Belmont Barber Chairs (imported from Japan, of course) and one mobile washbasin. When the former is upright, it’s a super-comfy chair – the kind that encourages you to settle in for hours. When it goes into recline mode, you’re lying down the same way as when you’re at the washbasin. The only difference: the latter, parked between the Barber Chairs, comes to you. Sick. – DC

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