Antica Barbieria Colla
Heritage HouseMilan / Online
Milan barbershop operating since 1904, with its own shaving creams, aftershaves and grooming preparations sold from the historic shop near the Duomo.
Best for Barbershop-grade shave creams.
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ORBISTHE BARBERS ISSUE11 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Black Sheep Barber Shop brings a Budapest hairdressing business into this selection, alongside another Budapest hairdresser, Bosphorus Barber Shop. Proraso represents the shaving-products side of barbering through an Italian brand launched in Florence by Piero Martelli in 1948. Its green eucalyptus-and-menthol shaving cream comes in a metal tube, providing a specific product to compare with other shaving preparations.
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This plate lists 11 shops in 7 countries.
Ask whether to book: many barbers work by appointment, so check before arriving for a cut or a shave.
Ask what the service includes: a cut, a hot-towel shave and a beard trim are often priced separately, so ask what the price covers.
Ask about the products used: ask the name of the product if you want to buy it or avoid it next time.
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Visit official site ↗Drumohr
Heritage HouseLombardy / Online
Founded by James Paterson in Dumfries, Scotland circa 1770 (sources vary between 1770 and 1773), Drumohr has been made in Italy since the Ciocca Group acquired the label in 2006 — and it makes knitwear only. Brushed Shetland lambswool and razor-stripe cottons lead the luxury knitwear range.
Best for Brushed lambswool and heritage knits.
Visit official site ↗Budapest, Hungary
Black Sheep Barber Shop is listed in Budapest as a hairdresser; its official website and supplied OpenStreetMap place record provide the public-door evidence.
Best for Hairdresser
Visit official site ↗Budapest, Hungary
Bosphorus Barber Shop is listed in Budapest as a hairdresser; its official website and supplied OpenStreetMap place record provide the public-door evidence.
Best for Hairdresser
Visit official site ↗Florence / Online
Italian shaving-cream brand launched in Florence in 1948 by Piero Martelli, son of Ludovico Martelli, whose eponymous barber-supply company had operated since 1908. The green eucalyptus-and-menthol formula, in its metal tube, remains its signature product.
Best for Eucalyptus shave classics.
Proraso's roots go back to 1908, when Ludovico Martelli founded a barber-supply and grooming-products company in Italy. In 1948, his son Piero developed a pre- and post-shave cream he called 'Crema Miracolosa' (Miracle Cream), registering it that year as the Proraso brand — a name evoking 'pro rasoio,' for the razor. The original formula, built around eucalyptus oil and menthol and packaged in a distinctive green metal tube, launched at a moment of postwar renewal in Italy and became the foundation of the brand's identity. Over the following decade the Martelli family expanded the range into a tricolor system echoing the Italian flag — green (eucalyptus/menthol), white (a gentler formula for sensitive skin, later reformulated with green tea and oat), and red (sandalwood, for coarser beards) — while keeping the green formula as the flagship. Proraso's shaving cream remains, by multiple industry accounts, the best-selling shaving cream in Italy, and the green tub in particular has become a fixture in barbershops both domestically and internationally, exported well beyond its original grooming-supply origins.
Visit official site ↗Baytown, Texas
A working East Texas Avenue barber that Visit Baytown traces to 1948, at its present location since 1962 - with an extensive mounted-animal collection inside.
Best for A haircut inquiry and a distinctive piece of documented downtown continuity
Open city/visitor reference ↗Lenk im Simmental, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
The Zeller family makes Berner Alpkäse AOP on Alp Ahorni above Lenk during the summer grazing season. Milk from its cows is worked in a kettle over fire, and the wheels mature for slicing or shaving. Cheese is available through the family's sales point in Lenk, with postal parcels also arranged by direct contact.
Best for Berner Alpkäse AOP and matured Hobelkäse from the Zeller family
Alp Ahorni is the Zeller family's summer cheesemaking operation above Lenk in the Bernese Oberland. The family takes its cows onto the alp for the grazing season and makes Berner Alpkäse AOP from their milk. Cheesemaking follows the rhythm of that summer pasture rather than the setting of a year-round town dairy.
The milk goes into the cheesemaking kettle with cultures and rennet; fire and handwork are part of the process. The family cares for the wheels as they mature, producing cheese for slicing as well as longer-aged Hobelkäse. These different stages of maturation matter when choosing between a piece for cutting and cheese intended for shaving.
You can buy the family's cheese at its sales point in Lenk without making an excursion onto the alp. The business also offers parcels by post through direct contact, providing another route to the same producer's cheeses. If a particular maturity is important to you, ask about the available wheels rather than treating all Alpkäse as identical.
Visit official site ↗Curzon Street, London
The gentleman's barber since 1875 — colognes, shaving creams, and the Mayfair institution that has been the standard of British grooming for nearly 150 years.
Best for Since 1875, Mayfair barber, and the standard of British grooming.
Visit official site ↗Magazine Street
Aidan Gill for Men combines traditional barber services with shaving tools, grooming products and masculine gifts. Clients can book a cut or shave, then buy the products used during the service.
Best for Old-school cuts, shaves, and premium men's grooming products
Visit official site ↗Oslo / Norway
Menswear shop with clothing, accessories and grooming products on Nordre gate.
Visit official site ↗Paris
French men’s grooming — straightforward skincare and hair essentials in pharmacie-chic packaging. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for French men's grooming, skincare and hair essentials in pharmacie-chic packaging
Visit official site ↗Illustrative still-life generated for ORBIS; not a photograph of any shop.