Theo Marlowe

Anyone who knows me knows I have never been good at sitting still.

I picked up my first pair of clippers at sixteen, cutting friends' hair in my parents' kitchen. Ten years and three cities later I had worked in busy high street shops, quiet hotel barbers and one very loud salon, and I knew exactly what I wanted to build: a place where men could slow down for an hour and leave feeling like the best version of themselves.

I always wanted a shop that felt like a good bar: warm, a little old-fashioned, and full of people who are glad you came in.

We opened at 18 Mercer Lane in 2014 with two chairs and a coffee machine. Today the family is ten strong, with treatment rooms upstairs and a shop of products we actually use ourselves. The idea has never changed: take the time, do it properly, and make every guest feel at home.

You will still find me behind a chair most days. Come and say hello.