#helena rubinstein fifth avenue salon

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Helena Rubinstein’s Fifth Avenue Salon in New York (1937)

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March 30, 1948: Helena Rubinstein, salon at 655 Fifth Avenue, New York. Hair styling room. 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

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Inside the Helena Rubinstein Beauty School in her salon on Fifth Avenue, 1958.

For me, it is just as important to help a human being become beautiful as it is to sculpt a great statue or paint a fine portrait. Works of art do not cross paths in the street every day, they don’t sit at the table opposite you.

     —Helena Rubenstein

Photo: Inge Morath for Look magazine via Magnum Photos

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The Hair Room: 1948 March 30, 1948. "Helena Rubinstein, salon at 655 Fifth Avenue, New York. Hair styling room." 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

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The Hair Room: 1948 March 30, 1948. "Helena Rubinstein, salon at 655 Fifth Avenue, New York. Hair styling room." 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

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The Hair Room: 1948

March 30, 1948. "Helena Rubinstein, salon at 655 Fifth Avenue, New York. Hair styling room." 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.