Sable & FourthRichmond VA Book
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Behind the chairs

The barbers and what each is asked for

Four people run Sable & Fourth Barbers between them. Each one takes every service on the board, and each one has two the shop sends their way first. The photographs below show the work rather than the faces: every one is shot from behind, over the shoulder, or close in on the hands.

The four barber records

A barber holds a cutting comb flat against the back of a client's head and runs clippers along it. Photographed from behind; no face is in frame.

No. 01

Rosa Delgado

Owner and lead barber

Rosa Delgado opened Sable & Fourth Barbers and still takes the first chair on every day the shop is open, working scissor-led shapes that are cut to the way the hair actually grows rather than to a photograph held up on a phone. She spends the opening minutes of an appointment asking how the hair behaves on an ordinary morning, then finishes the cut dry, so the line that leaves the shop is the one that turns up the next day.

Responsible for the cutting standard the other three chairs work to.

Service focus

Two hands lift a section of long hair over a comb and cut it with shears. Only the hands, the hair and the tools are in frame.

No. 02

Marcus Hale

Senior barber

Marcus Hale works the beard side of the board and takes the longest appointments in the diary, setting a jaw line against hair that has already been finished instead of trimming the two separately and hoping that they meet somewhere in the middle. He puts a hot towel on before a razor touches an outline, checks the cheek line with the guest sitting upright, and will say plainly when a beard wants another fortnight before it is worth shaping.

Responsible for every razor outline the shop puts on a face.

Service focus

A barber works with scissors at the back of a caped client's head at an open-air cutting station. Both people are seen from behind or with the face out of frame.

No. 03

Tessa Byrne

Barber and consultation lead

Tessa Byrne reads the messages that arrive through the contact form and writes most of the replies, which is why an enquiry describing the hair comes back with a service named and a price attached rather than with a request to telephone during opening hours. At the chair she takes the shorter finishing appointments and the young guests, naming each tool before it is switched on and working at whatever pace the child in the chair happens to set.

Responsible for what the shop promises before anybody sits down.

Service focus

A comb drawn back through slicked hair at the chair. No face is in frame.

No. 04

Andre Collins

Shop coordinator

Andre Collins keeps the diary, answers the telephone and makes certain that every appointment has the right amount of time behind it, which is the reason the shop runs one chair at a time and nobody is moved along to make room for the next name. He also cuts on the busier afternoons, taking clipper work and signature cuts, and he is the person who writes the guard numbers into the book so the second visit matches the first.

Responsible for the timing of the day and for the book itself.

Service focus

Services and prices

Talk to the shop

Ask for a barber by specialty

Naming a barber in a message is enough. If they are not working the day being asked about, the reply says which days they are.

Book a chair Send a message Email the shop

The column

A short note when the shop changes something

Holiday hours, a barber joining or leaving, a price that moves. Two or three notes a year and nothing else.

The privacy notice explains what happens to the address.

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