Zoltan at Josh Wood Atelier

Zoltan, from the cover of his Atelier brochure.

After Compton, Zoltan worked by appointment at Atelier Lansdowne, Josh Wood’s salon in a mews in Notting Hill. Smaller room, same work: keratin, straightening and waves, mixed for each head of hair.

This is where Hot Smooth started, in 2014, and where the treatments got the names Keratin Smooth, Repair, Wave and Straight. The brochure on these pages is Zoltan’s own, from that time.

By appointment

Atelier Lansdowne
6 Lansdowne Mews, London W11

Josh Wood’s salon, where Zoltan worked from c.2014 to 2016. Zoltan no longer works there, and nothing on these pages can be booked there.

Josh Wood on Zoltan

“Working alongside Zoltan has opened my eye to texture. Not only his many ways of expertly dealing with difficult texture but his ability to add texture to hair that is limp and needs body is revolutionary…”
Josh Wood · as printed in the Atelier brochure

Josh Wood is a colourist. At the Atelier, Zoltan did the texture: smoothing, straightening, and the waves and root lift that give limp hair body. The quote is from the brochure Zoltan handed out there, shown in full below.

Press, the Atelier years

The press lines as printed on the brochure’s press page, c.2015.

Zoltan is an artist. He tailors to each client, mixing up his own formulations. It’s like a jigsaw rather than one size fits all. The Sunday Times
Treatments are tailored for each head of hair, so you leave with long-lasting, frizz-free, conditioned locks Harper’s Bazaar
The beauty editor go-to for straightening The Telegraph

HELLO! magazine also appears on the brochure’s press page, with the line “the undisputed king of Brazilian blow-dries”.

Credits as printed on the brochure, without issue dates. The Sunday Times line is from Newby Hands, June 2014.Everything else is on Press.

The Atelier archive

Hot Smooth and the treatments
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The bio, as it was then
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The brochure, c.2015

Zoltan’s own brochure from the Atelier, all six pages. The Atelier’s booking details on the last page are blurred: they’re not Zoltan’s, and nothing here can be booked there now.