Marcel Avenue Studio

Open today until 7:00 pm · next opening Thu 3:30 pm with Dev

412 Whitaker St, Savannah · (912) 555-0168

The Marcel Avenue Studio floor: three styling chairs along a bone plaster wall, each under a tall arched brass-framed mirror, with a stack of mulberry towels on a marble ledge

Savannah, Georgia · Since 2019

Three chairs.
Every price on the wall.

Marcel Avenue is a small studio on Whitaker Street. Mireille cuts, Sasha colours, Dev barbers — and nobody here will quote you a number at the till that you didn't hear at the mirror.

Tue – Fri
9:00 – 7:00
Saturday
9:00 – 5:00
Sun & Mon
Closed

The chairs

Three people, and you pick which one

There is no “next available stylist” here. You book a person, you keep that person, and if you want to move to a different chair you say so and nobody sulks.

Mireille Foss standing beside her styling chair, shears in hand

Mireille Foss

Owner · senior stylist

Opened Marcel Avenue in 2019 after eleven years in Charleston and London. Cuts dry, more often than not, because that's how hair actually falls. Fifteen years in and still redraws the parting three times before she starts.

  • Precision cutting
  • Curly & textured
  • Restyles
  • Bridal
Sasha Lindqvist holding a tint bowl and brush at the colour bar

Sasha Lindqvist

Colour specialist

Does nothing but colour, which is why she is good at it. Trained in Copenhagen, obsessed with the grown-out stage — she will talk you out of a colour that looks wonderful for six weeks and terrible for six months.

  • Balayage
  • Blonding
  • Colour correction
  • Grey blending
Dev Marchetti standing at his barbering station, comb behind his ear

Dev Marchetti

Barbering & short hair

Barbers the way his grandfather did, minus the opinions about your career. Scissor work, skin fades, hot-towel beard finishes, and most of the under-12s on a Saturday morning.

  • Scissor cutting
  • Skin fades
  • Beards
  • Kids

The work

Ours, not a stock library

Every photograph on this site was taken in this room, of clients who said yes to being photographed. That matters — a gallery of borrowed images tells you nothing about what walks out of a particular door.

A fresh blunt collarbone-length cut in a cool brunette, photographed from behind against a plaster wall
Blunt collarboneMireille
A tapered natural afro shaped and defined, photographed in profile with the light behind
Shaped naturalMireille
The finishing detail of a classic scissor cut and beard trim, barber's comb in frame
Scissor cut & beardDev
More of the work →

Your visit

What actually happens

Before you arrive
Book online or call. If it's colour, we'll ask you in for a free fifteen-minute consultation first — and a strand test at least 48 hours ahead. That's not a sales step; it's how you avoid the appointment where the colour doesn't take and everyone pretends it's fine.
The consultation
Ten minutes at the mirror before a single clip goes in. Bring photographs — including ones you hate, they're more useful. Your stylist will tell you honestly whether your hair will do that, what it will cost, and how much work it is at home. If the answer is no, you'll hear no.
The appointment
One stylist, one client, start to finish. Nobody gets parked under a dryer while their stylist starts someone else. You get a drink, and a room quiet enough to talk or not talk.
Afterwards
You'll leave with a written note of exactly what was used — formula, developer, timing — so any stylist anywhere can pick it up. It's your hair; the recipe belongs to you.
If it's not right
Come back within fourteen days and we'll fix it at no charge. Not a re-do of a different idea — a correction of what we did. Say so early; we'd rather sort it than have you live with it.

Clients

In their words

★★★★★

“Sasha talked me out of the platinum I'd been asking three salons for, explained exactly why, and gave me something better. First colourist who has ever said no to me.”

Erin M. · balayage · via Google

★★★★★

“I have curly hair and have been butchered in this city more than once. Mireille cut it dry, took forty minutes, and I've had strangers ask where I go.”

Tomas R. · curly cut · via Google

★★★★★

“The price on the website is the price at the desk. After years of ‘that'll be a bit more because of your length,’ I can't tell you what a relief that is.”

Nadine A. · cut & finish · via Google

Good questions

Asked at the desk

Anything not covered here, call us. Somebody in the room picks up between clients.

(912) 555-0168
Do I need a consultation before colour?

Yes, for anything beyond a gloss on hair we already know. It's free, takes fifteen minutes, and includes a strand test at least 48 hours ahead. Bleach on unknown hair is how salons produce the results nobody photographs. We'd rather spend a quarter of an hour than four hours fixing it.

Is your pricing genuinely fixed?

The cutting and barbering menu is fixed — the number you read is the number you pay. Colour is quoted at the consultation and written down before we start, because the honest answer depends on your hair's length, density and history. What never happens is a surprise at the desk.

Can I book with a specific stylist?

You always book a person, never a slot. If your stylist is away and you need something sooner, we'll tell you who else can do that particular thing well — and if nobody can, we'll say that too.

What's your cancellation policy?

Twenty-four hours' notice, no charge, no lecture. Inside 24 hours we ask for 50% of the service, because a three-chair studio can't refill a two-hour colour slot on the morning. Illness and emergencies are waived — just tell us.

Do you cut children's hair?

Dev does, mostly Saturday mornings when the studio is calmer. $32, thirty minutes, and no pressure — if they won't sit, we'll try again another day and not charge you for the attempt.

Where do I park?

Metered spaces along Whitaker, free after 5:00 pm and all day Sunday. The Whitaker Street garage is two blocks north and is the safer bet on a Saturday. We're a ground-floor unit with a step-free entrance.

Book a chair

Three chairs, and one of them is free this week.

Book online in about a minute, or call and speak to whoever isn't mid-blow-dry. Colour clients: ask for the free consultation and we'll fit you in this week.

412 Whitaker St, Savannah, GA 31401 · Tue–Fri 9–7, Sat 9–5 · closed Sunday and Monday

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