埃斯特亚美容工作室丨意大利米兰

Can we all agree the clinical white-box beauty salon has had its day? Sterile surfaces, fluorescent lighting, zero personality—it was never giving what it thought it was giving. The best wellness and grooming spaces are now taking serious cues from hospitality and residential design, and honestly, it’s about time. Case in point: Estea Beauty Studio in Milan, freshly redesigned by RedDuo, and looking every bit as good as the city it sits in.

RedDuo is the brainchild of Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso—a duo with roots in fashion who launched their multidisciplinary design studio in 2020. They work across interior architecture, product design, and custom furniture, with a strong commitment to Italian craftsmanship and artisan collaboration.

The layout is clever. An angled metal-and-glass cube sits at the heart of the space. Part treatment cabin, part room divider, it carves the interior into three zones: entrance, welcome desk, and treatment areas. Beyond that, two more cabins handle facials and massage. It’s compact, but nothing feels cramped. Every decision reads as deliberate.

The colour palette is all vanilla and chocolate—warm, rich, and instantly calming. Alpi wood, metal, and resin bring texture and depth, while the overall mood sits somewhere between a considered living room and a high-end retreat. “We like the ’70s as a reference, especially with metallic, lacquered types of materials,” explains Andrea Rosso.

RedDuo designed all the furnishings, including a rug from their Furry Network collection with Belgian brand JOV that softens the space beautifully. The detailing nods to Japanese design—clean, precise, restrained—but filtered through a distinctly Milanese material sensibility. Two design cultures that clearly get along.

Partners on the project include Kerakoll for surfaces and textures, JOV for custom rugs, and Leucos for lighting. In several instances, bespoke finishes and colours were developed specifically for the project—reinforcing a tailor-made identity rather than an off-the-shelf approach. Fabiola Di Virgilio says: “We are able to do everything because we have a lot of friends in this business and we are certainly going to have a pulse on everything that’s interesting in this city.”

This is what happens when beauty and self-care are reframed through the lens of considered interior design. ESTEA doesn’t feel like a salon. It feels like somewhere you’d actually want to linger. And in a city like Milan, that’s saying something.

[Images courtesy of RedDuo. Photography by Giulio Ghirardi.]