Hannah Tindle is Beauty & Grooming Editor at Wallpaper*. With ten years of experience working for media titles and brands across the luxury and culture sectors, she brings a breadth of knowledge to the magazine’s beauty vertical, which closely intersects with fashion, art, design, and technology.
in Edinburgh, located at No.8 Charlotte Square. Celebrating Gabrielle Chanel’s close ties to Scotland, the neoclassical Robert Adam-designed building became a showcase of its Métiers d’art 2023 collection. It was designed to feel like a ‘charming temporary home’, with a light and airy ambience embellished with soft furnishings and antiques.
I took a trip up from London to preview the space, which is now open to the public until March 30, 2024. As the lipstick collection hones in on the transformative power of after-dark make-up the townhouse has been decked out with a cinema with red neon signage, digital clocks displaying times between midnight and the morning, a nightclub replete with disco balls and DJ decks, and an illuminated make-up school, where Chanel-trained artists are on hand to offer product demonstrations and trials.