The room is spacious, with six barber stations and a large, simple communal table surrounded by squat chairs. People sit, charge their phones and read giant coffee-table tomes on Steve McQueen, Irving Penn and surfing. A client enters with a large Saint Bernard. Everyone gets up to pet it. The guitar plucking of Long Cool Woman by The Hollies can be heard on the speakers.
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