On a quiet road in London’s Notting Hill sits an unusual-looking constructing, its whitewashed façade punctuated by three arched, stained glass home windows. An unassuming doorway, painted gloss black, retains its authentic wrought iron deal with as a marker of the constructing’s 150-year age.
There’s little indication as to what may be behind it, however that is the London flagship clinic of facialist Teresa Tarmey. Inside, she presents her personal mix of tried-and-tested strategies and high-tech procedures: cleaning and extraction, muscle-toning therapeutic massage and delicate peels, microneedling, LED and laser are the foundations of her follow.
Inside Teresa Tarmey’s Notting Hill clinic
The outside of Teresa Tarmey’s flagship clinic
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‘My entire profession trajectory has been such a sluggish and natural course of,’ says Tarmey, who hails from Doncaster, however moved to London in 2008, the place she steadily grew to become a cult ‘must know’ identify amongst a community of purchasers within the Primrose Hill set. She noticed the Notting Hill house come up for lease throughout lockdown.
‘Though it was a difficult time, I used to be fully in love with it and knew I needed to make it occur it doesn’t matter what,’ she says. Initially a Nineteenth-century synagogue, the individuality of the inside makes the explanations for her adoration instantly clear. ‘Individuals usually assume that the constructing is listed, however it isn’t. After we renovated the house 5 years in the past, I didn’t wish to change an excessive amount of to respect the unique options. I wished it to be a spot the place purchasers, whether or not from London or travelling right here to go to, may actually really feel at house.’
Tarmey utilizing a pores and skin scanner, which may analyse the depth of wrinkles, positive strains
and pores, and assesses the quantity of solar injury to your pores and skin
(Picture credit score: Sophie Gladstone)
When it got here to the interiors, I stored [the clinic] minimal, like a ‘white dice’ artwork gallery, the place my merchandise might be displayed in a approach that didn’t really feel overpowering
Teresa Tarmey
The structure is nearly completely round, with stairs resulting in the higher ground balcony. ‘After we acquired it, we constructed some partition partitions up there to create the therapy rooms, however, structurally talking, that’s all we did.’ Even the synagogue’s bimah (the raised platform used for Torah studying) stays, alongside the stained glass window above it and those who hint the sides of the ceiling, permitting pure gentle
to flood the expansive reception space from above.
‘When it got here to the interiors, I stored it minimal, like a ‘white dice’ artwork gallery, the place my merchandise might be displayed in a approach that didn’t really feel overpowering,’ Tarmey continues. (Her eponymous skincare line features a streamlined edit of extremely efficient topical merchandise and a house microneedling equipment, which was shortlisted within the 2022 Wallpaper* Design Awards.)
The house is kitted out with midcentury furnishings acquired from impartial sellers, equivalent to this ‘Pantonova 125T’ lounge chair, designed by Verner Panton for Fritz Hansen, and a few Nineteen Seventies chrome steel cabinets
(Picture credit score: Sophie Gladstone)
The furnishings, lighting and objects are principally midcentury items that I’ve acquired by way of impartial sellers, equivalent to Sophie Pearce of Béton Brut and Tom Bogle
Teresa Tarmey
‘The furnishings, lighting and objects are principally midcentury items that I’ve acquired by way of impartial sellers, equivalent to Sophie Pearce of Béton Brut and Tom Bogl,’ she says. Man Bourdin prints are strategically dotted across the partitions. ‘Considered one of my purchasers is the co-founder of the Louise Alexander Gallery, which takes care of the Man Bourdin property. She’s been so type to mortgage a few of his works for us to show right here. We additionally stage exhibitions. One of many first we placed on was by Mercedes Helnwein. Leith Clark curated it and we had a gap hosted by Courtney Love. Gilbert & George got here to do a guide signing.’
Over in Chelsea, Tarmey has a second residency at The Cadogan Lodge, and he or she recurrently units up store on the Lodge Cipriani throughout the Venice Movie Competition. For its 81st iteration final yr, Tarmey was available for long-time shopper Julianne Moore for her look on the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Subsequent Door. ‘I’ll be on the Cipriani once more this yr,’ she says. ‘In the mean time, I’m specializing in new physique therapies we’ve launched in London, a brand new SPF popping out in June, plus our pop-up at Selfridges in Manchester.’
Flip down any road in 2025 and cookie-cutter medispas are sprouting up like daisies. However Tarmey’s west London haven – and certainly her holistic strategy to the artwork of fine pores and skin – is a factor of magnificence.
Teresa Tarmey’s clinic is at 206-208 Kensington Park Street, London W11, teresatarmey.com
A model of this text seems in The June 2025 difficulty of Wallpaper*, accessible in print on newsstands from 8 Could 2025, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple Information +. Subscribe to Wallpaper* at this time
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