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Veyne House
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Day spa and skin clinic

An hour of quiet, held in stone.

Tell us what your skin needs, take an open hour, and the room is warm before you arrive.

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Take a time, then talk.

A treatment room in dark honed stone, a bed dressed in cream linen under a marble ledge with a lit brass sconce above it.

Room resting

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I burn easily and I have never had a facial. Is that a problem?

Not at all. We start with the gentlest of the three and keep the room cool. Would a quiet morning suit you?

Yes. Something early this week, please.

This weekExample

  • Mon

    09:00 12:00 15:00

  • Tue

    12:00 15:00

  • Wed

    09:00 12:00 15:00

  • Thu

    09:00 12:00

  • Fri

    09:00 15:00

  • Sat

    09:00 12:00 15:00

  • Sun

    Closed

A few hours are open this week. On Sundays the house is quiet, so we keep the day clear.

Treatments

Three things, done slowly.

The listExample

Seen from above the crown of the head, a practitioner's hands rest at a guest's temples, her shoulders covered by a cream linen sheet.

The long facial

The face and the neck, read first and worked slowly, with the room kept cool.

€180Ninety minutes

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Warm dark basalt stones laid out on a honed marble tray, thin steam lifting off them beside a brass dish of oil.

Stone and heat

Warm stone along the back and the shoulders, then oil, then a long rest.

€140Seventy five minutes

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A slim aged brass tap runs a soft rope of warm water into a basin carved from honed cream marble, steam rising off it.

The quiet hour

Water, warm cloth and nothing said, for the part after the heat.

€95One hour

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  • Skin reading, before a first visit€40, half an hour
  • Back, neck and shoulders€120, one hour

An example list for a house that does not exist. Nothing here can be bought.

A wall of honed cream marble with soft grey veining, lit from one side so the grain and the joints read across it.
The hall Marble, warm water, and nothing else in the room.
Practitioners

Three people, and you keep the one you like.

A practitioner in a stone grey linen coat stands in a dark stone room, calm, looking just past the camera.

Ines Valderrane

Skin

Reads a face before she touches it.

A practitioner in a stone grey linen coat folds a square of undyed linen at a honed marble counter.

Marit Ossley

Stone and heat

Learned the heat first, the oils after.

A practitioner in a stone grey linen coat stands beside a lit candle set into a niche in the stone wall.

Soraya Kenmoor

The quiet hour

Says almost nothing, and means it.

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Visit

Where the house is, and when it is open.

  • WhereDown the stone lane behind the old baths, the door with the brass handle
  • WhenFrom nine in the morning until seven, every day but Sunday
  • The hallKept silent before noon, so mornings are the quietest hours to take
  • Ask forSoraya Kenmoor, at the desk in the hall
  • Getting inOne bell by the door. There is nothing to knock on

The house does not take anyone off the street. Every hour is held for one person.

A guest rests in a low chair in the quiet room, wrapped to the neck in a heavy cream robe, her eyes closed.
Questions

The five things people ask before a first hour.

Unlabelled amber and clear glass bottles and a stone jar stand on an aged brass tray on a honed marble shelf.
I have never had a treatment. Where do I start?

With the skin reading. It is half an hour, you keep your clothes on, and nothing is sold to you at the end of it.

What should I bring?

Nothing you do not already have. Robes, slippers and towels are in the room, and there is a locker with a key.

Can I come on my own?

Yes, and most people do. Say so in the note and the assistant finds the quietest hour of the day for you.

Can I move the hour?

Write back to the note and the assistant moves it. A room is only held once, so earlier is kinder to whoever is next.

My skin reacts to almost everything. Is that alright?

Tell the assistant what your skin does and the practitioner picks the gentlest of the three. Nothing goes on you that you have not been told about first.

A tall dark timber door with a long aged brass handle at the end of a charcoal stone hall, warm light spilling from the room beyond.
This week

Take an hour this week.

The assistant holds it, asks what your skin is like, and sends a note before the day.

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