Ocean Cosmetics offers a sensorial and immersive client experience, redefining expectations and setting a new benchmark in Aesthetic Medicine. Seeking to create a sense of luxury around the service offering, the design draws inspiration from the iconic Thierry Mugler Angel perfume bottle, delivering a series sleek, angular and sophisticated spaces with a sense of luxury and intrigue that challenge the norms when it comes to aesthetic medical practice.

In contrast to the sleek forms of the bottle, the studio sought to interpret the local landscape within a clinical context. Honest materials like walnut, bronze, Belgian linen and travertine are juxtaposed against terrazzo, velvet, Alpine quartzite and Carrara marble creating a cerebral approach to natural inspiration and paying homage to the famous beachside nearby.

More akin to a luxury boutique or boutique hotel, the clinic was designed to transport the user to an ethereal other world. The innovative approach to this kind of design required equally innovative thinking. Throwing out the rule book allowed the design team to introduce dramatic and angular forms (a metaphor speaking to the cutting-edge work of the clinic), and complex, opulent layers of materials that would feel at home in a luxury Parisian boutique.

Similarly to the aesthetic considerations, an innovative floor plan was needed to address the unusual shape of the tenancy, with the solution derived from a nautilus shell. This approach created a central vestibule with spaces radiating out from the central core. The studio sought to use design to enhance the unusual architectural elements (such as columns) by incorporating them as part of the design rather than concealing them.