Vesla Studio

From the moment you step in off the street, the material language is consistent and considered: warm timber, natural stone, living plants. Nothing is incidental. Every element has been chosen to ease the transition from the pace of daily life into something slower, more deliberate, and deeply restorative.

For Perth couple Lucas and Erzhena, the pull was personal. Travelling through Scandinavia and Russia, and drawing on Erzhena’s Siberian upbringing, they experienced firsthand what an authentic sauna tradition can offer: not just physical restoration, but a quieting of the mind that is increasingly difficult to find. They returned home with a clear vision. A space where people could slow down, connect to something natural, and feel genuinely well.

They found their site in a quiet Jolimont street. An empty warehouse, full of potential. The challenge was to bring nature inside, to create within a converted industrial shell the same sense of warmth and organic calm that defines the tradition they set out to honour.

At the heart of the studio sits a communal cedar sauna, flanked by hot and cold plunge pools. Around them, the planting does its quiet work. Shade-loving species cascade down from above the sauna, softening the architecture and drawing the eye upward. Garden beds of varied foliage wrap the space, creating pockets of privacy and a sense of immersion that makes the outside world feel very far away.