{"id":424753,"date":"2026-02-14T04:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424753\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:03:20","slug":"why-aesthetics-clinics-are-our-new-interior-design-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424753\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aesthetics clinics are our new interior design inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pink door painted in Farrow & Ball\u2019s Cinder Rose provides a glimpse of what\u2019s to come at Le Petit Saint, the sculptor turned doctor Joseph Hkeik\u2019s first London clinic, tucked inside a sprawling Georgian townhouse. Le Petit Saint is the latest in Hkeik\u2019s clutch of cult All Saint clinics, in Sydney and now Mayfair, where the Lebanese-Australian cosmetic doctor and his team dispense his \u201cchurch of skin\u201d philosophy to a client list that includes Rita Ora and Elle Macpherson.<\/p>\n

The aim of this dreamlike space, designed with Hkeik\u2019s longtime friend and collaborator Blainey North, whose own little black book is sprinkled with A-listers such as Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, is to act as an emotional recalibration. \u201cI want people to feel calm, held, unrushed. I want them to feel safe enough to soften,\u201d Hkeik explains. \u201cI deliberately stripped back the environment. I believe that restraint allows the nervous system to settle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The end result is elegant, the antithesis of the more typical stark clinical space. Each of its five stories is dedicated to a different sculptural medium \u2014 resin, paper, wood, clay and stone \u2014 the colours becoming more diluted as you ascend each level. \u201cAlmost like you\u2019re going up to the heavens,\u201d Hkeik says.<\/p>\n

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Dr Joseph Hkeik in his London clinic<\/p>\n

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The front door is painted in Farrow & Ball Cinder Rose<\/p>\n

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The water feature is topped by a model of the famous Winged Victory<\/p>\n

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On entering, guests are greeted by the muted rose reception space with its curved timber and leather reception desk below a hand-painted Greco-Roman bas-relief and a plaster and opal-glass pendant, a homage to classical drapery, by the lighting designer Lee Broom. The sound of running water \u2014 courtesy of a pink onyx and clay water feature \u2014 is a motif here and in Hkeik\u2019s Sydney clinics. \u201cQuiet is not an absence, it\u2019s a presence without pressure,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The celestial pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance? An angelic pair of glittering crystal-encrusted wings, designed by the Melbourne-based artist Christopher Boots, suspended in a two-storey glass void at the end of the reception area.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, there is a sculptural element in every space \u2014 from a pair of paper sculptures depicting Neptune and Venus, by the English artist Andy Singleton, embedded into the ceilings of two of the treatment rooms, to Hkeik\u2019s own Henry Moore-inspired reclining female nude in clay in his first-floor office-cum-treatment room.<\/p>\n

Le Petit Saint\u2019s VIP suite is \u201cthe ultimate healing room\u201d, lit by surrealist wall sconces by Paolo Moschino, inviting complete surrender on a treatment bed covered in sumptuous French linens beneath a roof light opening to the London skies. As Hkeik explains: \u201cThis is where you\u2019ll come to lie down and forget completely about what\u2019s happening in your life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The soothing pink water feature is sculpted in onyx and clay<\/p>\n

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\"Interior<\/p>\n

The crystal Wings of Pegasus sculpture by the Australian artist Christopher Boots is suspended over a two-storey void<\/p>\n

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\"Clinic<\/p>\n

Hkeik\u2019s consultation room showcases burlwood panels<\/p>\n

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Two more superchic clinicsThe gallery space: Teresa Tarmey\"Interior<\/p>\n

Six years ago Teresa Tarmey fell in love with an old synagogue in Notting Hill, transforming the 19th-century building into her flagship clinic moments from the hubbub of Portobello Road. Here the Yorkshire-born facialist offers microneedling, LED therapy and radiofrequency, in a pared-back setting sprinkled with Guy Bourdin prints and de Sede sofas, which Tarmey sourced via 1stDibs, the Lancashire antiques dealer Lord Browns and the 20th-century specialist Golborne 44. She has retained nods to the building\u2019s past, from original stained glass to a bimah (the raised platform used for Torah readings). teresatarmey.com<\/a><\/p>\n

For antiques lovers: Dr David Jack\"An<\/p>\n

Glorious antiques are littered throughout the Dr David Jack Clinic and Skintech Studio (a facial bar offering Korean-inspired skin treatments) in Belgravia. Ranging from 1970s abstract Finnish artworks to a 17th-century Chinoiserie tapestry and a brass Chippendale-style bamboo console table from the 1960s, many of the pieces have been sourced by Jack himself. Clients can admire the check flooring \u2014 a medley of Rosso, Nero Marquina and Carrara marbles arranged in what Jack describes as \u201ca 1930s to 1940s Italian design\u201d \u2014 while waiting for a featherlight tweakment or to be anointed Cleopatra-style during a \u00a3250 multistep Egyptian facial. drdavidjack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pink door painted in Farrow & Ball\u2019s Cinder Rose provides a glimpse of what\u2019s to come at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-424753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}