— Retail · Hospitality
Nare Barbershop
A luxury gentlemen's grooming barbershop at Agora Village — designed as a confident, tactile retreat for modern grooming rituals.
- Client
- Nare Barbershop
- Location
- Agora Village, Lusaka
- Year
- 2024
- Status
- Completed
- Category
- Retail, Hospitality
- Scope
- Full gentlemen's grooming interior — stations, reception, waiting lounge and brand detailing
- Services
- Interior Design, Brand Environment, Bespoke Joinery, Lighting Design
The challenge
A compact retail unit that needed to feel premium, calm and unmistakably masculine on a busy mall concourse.
The intent
Guests should feel the shift from mall noise to a considered, personal grooming experience.
The design response
Industrial brick, warm timber, black steel and brass details frame a row of leather barber chairs. Round mirrors, pendant lighting and a long timber counter create rhythm, while a mezzanine lounge and timber screens add privacy and depth.
The experience
Waiting becomes part of the ritual — guests settle into leather, watch the craft and leave feeling sharper than when they arrived.
— Sustainability
The decisions that will still matter in ten years.
Local fabrication
Timber joinery and metalwork fabricated by Zambian workshops.
Long-life finishes
Leather, solid timber and steel chosen to patina gracefully under daily use.
— The outcome
A barbershop that sells the experience as much as the cut.
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