Joey Silvestera is to hair what Alexander Wang and Chloë Sevigny are to style: an original arbiter of insouciant downtown cool. The hairstylist to Wang, Sevigny, and many a Vogue editor has earned a cult following with his East Seventh Street salon, Blackstones, where local stylists, DJs, and cool kids looking for lived-in texture, fuss-free air-dried waves, and directional cuts settle into his wire-framed leather chairs for touch-ups and reinventions.
Starting Thursday, Silvestera’s west side clientele (and One World Trade Center–based devotees) won’t have to make the trek across town: His second Blackstones outpost opens at Tribeca’s newly appointed Roxy Hotel. Trading East Seventh Street’s coyotes and fruit bats (from the hairstylist’s past life as a professional taxidermist), exposed brick, and painted checkerboard floors for Carrara marble finishes, an arcade of mirrors, and brass accents, the new jewel box–like five-chair salon feels less like a turn-of-the-century apothecary and more like a private Parisian home. “We wanted it to look like an oversize beautiful bathroom. It’s a completely different direction,” says Silvestera. However surprising the design, guests coming in through the Dutch door at the hotel’s threshold or the ivy-dripped street entrance will find familiar ground in the sun-soaked wall of windows, on-site decanters of Blackstones’s own Five Wits shampoo and conditioner collection (recently redesigned by Wang alum Leslie Rubisch), and, of course, Silvestera’s deftly executed cuts. Consider it the perfect excuse for a spring hair refresh.
2 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10013, blackstonenyc.com
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