Kindred Studio

Tenant Buildout | Built | 2019

Kindred Studio was an esthetics practice run by two young business owners ready to move out of a salon suite and into a space of their own. Potts Lang Architects partnered with them on the buildout of their first tenant space, in The Beacon, a converted warehouse in Grant Park, guiding them through each step of their first commercial project.

The plan places a long retail wall and the reception desk along the entry, opening into a waiting area beside the warehouse's large windows. Beyond a curtain, a quiet corridor leads to three treatment rooms, with a restroom, break room, kitchen, laundry, and linen storage supporting the daily work of the studio.

The result was a calm, light-filled studio that kept the building's industrial character, with exposed ceilings and tall windows softened by curtains, plants, and warm wood.

The practice later designed Ritual Body Work, a massage studio next door in the same building.

GALLERY

The entry to Kindred Studio, looking down the length of the studio beneath an illuminated sign.

The retail wall of open shelving, opposite a wood slat wall and the reception desk.

The waiting area: a sofa and rattan chairs on a pale rug, beneath a gallery wall and tall warehouse windows.

The waiting area from across the room, with plants, a gallery wall, and natural light from the warehouse windows.

A round metal coffee table among plants, with a curtained opening to the treatment corridor beyond.

Tall windows softened by sheer curtains, with a fiddle-leaf fig and plants along the sill.

Retail shelving with pipe-hung wood shelves above a run of low white cabinets.

A treatment room, with a treatment bed beneath a pendant light.

A treatment room reflected in a round mirror.

A recessed ceiling in the treatment corridor, lit by a glowing cove of indirect light.