Salon Rive Gauche

Salon Rive Gauche at 3214 N Street NW is a French-inspired hair salon in the Georgetown residential neighborhood, on the N Street block between 32nd and 33rd Streets above the M Street commercial corridor. The name Rive Gauche, which refers to the Left Bank of the Seine River in Paris, invokes the Parisian salon tradition that the French capital’s beauty culture has developed and disseminated globally: the Left Bank of Paris has been associated with the intellectual, artistic, and the cultural avant-garde since Hemingway and Gertrude Stein established the neighborhood’s literary identity in the 1920s, and the Rive Gauche salon name locates the Georgetown salon within this Parisian tradition.

The French approach to the haircut and the color, which the Paris salon tradition has systematized into a recognized international standard, emphasizes the precision of the cut and the naturalism of the color: the French haircut that flows and moves with the hair’s natural texture rather than imposing an artificial structure, and the French color that enhances the natural hair color rather than covering it completely, are the standards that the Georgetown client who has experienced the Paris salon uses as the reference for the quality hair service.

The N Street residential address at 3214 places the salon in the Georgetown neighborhood above the commercial district, serving the residential Georgetown community from the neighborhood commercial position.

Hours run Tuesday through Saturday. The Salon Rive Gauche at 3214 N Street NW provides the Georgetown residential neighborhood with the French-influenced hair salon in the residential commercial setting that distinguishes the N Street salon from the commercial strip salons of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. The Georgetown resident who walks from the surrounding N Street blocks to the Salon Rive Gauche appointment is using the neighborhood commercial address in the residential character that the N Street salon setting provides.

The French salon tradition’s influence on the Salon Rive Gauche’s approach to the hair service is expressed in the attention to the natural movement of the hair and the precision of the cut rather than the styling products and the heat tools that the American salon tradition has historically relied on to produce the finished look. The Salon Rive Gauche client who discovers that the haircut grows out naturally and maintains its shape through the full appointment interval has experienced the specific quality of the French-influenced precision cut. Hours run Tuesday through Saturday. The Salon Rive Gauche at 3214 N Street NW is the Georgetown residential neighborhood’s French-influenced hair appointment, open Tuesday through Saturday. The N Street residential commercial context, which is quieter and more residential than the Wisconsin Avenue and M Street commercial strips, gives the salon the neighborhood character that the French salon tradition values: the atelier in the neighborhood rather than the commercial establishment in the shopping district. The Georgetown client who walks from the surrounding N Street and P Street residential blocks to the Salon Rive Gauche appointment is using the neighborhood resource in the French tradition.