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SEARCHSALONS OF THE YEAR, SALON TODAY’s renowned competition for salon and spa design is in its final judging stages for 2014. We are proud to announce this year’s 20 SALONS OF DISTINCTION, the finalists who will all be honored in the commemorative June 2014 issue, and who now proceed to the final round of judging.
SALONS OF THE YEAR, SALON TODAY’s renowned competition for salon and spa design is in its final judging stages for 2014. We are proud to announce this year’s 20 SALONS OF DISTINCTION, the finalists who will all be honored in the commemorative June 2014 issue, and who now proceed to the final round of judging. This last phase of judging determines the SALON OF THE YEAR, whose design will grace the June cover.
To be eligible for the competition, salons and/or spas had to be newly opened or newly renovated during the calendar year 2013. To enter, salons submitted up to 10 professional photographs that best showcased their salon/spa design, as well as answered a series of essays about their design choices before the January 31st deadline.
Then, the judging commenced. In the first round, the SALON TODAY team reviewed and qualified each entry. Secondly, a panel of MODERN SALON Media editors and art directors evaluated each entry in further detail, selecting the 20 SALONS OF DISTINCTION. Finally, a panel of outside expert judges will scrutinize each entry and score each of these finalists in six different décor categories.
Judges scores will be combined and used to determine the grand-prize winner and the runners-up. The Grand Prize SALON OF THE YEAR will be announced May 31, 2013.
Check salontoday.com and SALON TODAY's Facebook page each day starting today and we'll introduce you to a new SALONS OF THE YEAR finalist each day--tell us which one is your favorite!
See all of the previous SALONS OF THE YEAR Winners.
Congratulations to the 2014 SALONS OF DISTINCTION:
212 Salon and Day Spa, in Upper Montclair, NJ, owned by Donna and Gaetano Lo Sauro
6 Salon, owned by Tomy Lulgjuraj, Johnny Nikollaj, and George Nikollaj in Birmingham, MI
Airbar in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, owned by Jenny and Alexis Becker
Cloud 10 Blow Dry Bar & Makeup Salon in Delray Beach, FL, owned by Jodi Dery
Danny Jelaca Salon in Miami Beach, FL, owned by Danny Jelaca
Dieci Uomo in Livingston, NJ, owned by Paul and Marie Gaglioti
Epic - a Michael Allen Salon in York, PA, owned by Dawn Smith and Michael Allen Morgan
European Beauty Concepts in Williamsburg, PA, owned by Annette Ritzmann and Bar Palmer
Gary Manuel Studio in Seattle, WA, owned by Gary Howse and Manuel Benevich
HC Studio in Brookline, MA, owned by Susan Healy
J Michaels Salon in Des Moines, IA, owned by Michelle and Jay Ryan
J Roland Salon in San Francisco, CA, owned by Joseph Roland
Keter Salon in Berkeley, CA, owned by Diana Gordon
Mane Attraction in Phoenix, AZ, owned by Kendall Ong and Beate Assmuth-Ong
Misbehaven Spa & Salon in Walla Walla, WA, owned by Jeanese LeFore
Poppy Salon in Waite Park, MN, owned by Jackie Hyndman, Nicolle Kruger and Alex Hyndman
Salon Aguayo in Pasadena, CA, owned by Joseph Aguayo
Shep Studio in Provo, UT, owned by Shep and Tracy Wolsey
SOTO - Salon on the Ohio in Cincinnati, OH, owned by Gregory Schroeder and Anastasia Kim
Tricho Salon & Spa in Ann Arbor, MI, owned by Michael Stein and Lynn McMullin
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