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SonderStudios.
Sonder Studios is at 38 Leeds Street, Footscray VIC 3011, next to Maddern Square. Tattoo artists, barbers and coffee in one collective. Book the service you want: ink is not a fade, and a flat white is not a booking. Closed Sunday and Monday. Saturday closes 3pm. Phone 0493 601 479. Site: sonderstudioscollective.com. Last checked 2026-09-17.
What people get wrong
Tattoo studio first. Barbering is one desk in the same room. Book the service you actually want. Closed Sunday. Last checked 2026-09-17. Hours change. Trust the official site or the door on the day you go.
What is Sonder Studios known for?
Google review volume is why Sonder shows up in a Footscray salon search. The room is a shopfront tattoo studio that also cuts hair and pours coffee. That mix is the point, and the trap. If you only wanted balayage, MAMAWEST is Thread Lane. If you only wanted a men's scissor cut in a quiet barber, Studio Zero is Joseph Road.
Leeds is market-side Footscray: Pho Tam at 7-9, Rudimentary at 16-20, Vietnamese legal desks in the same block. Sonder is 38, the square edge, not a hidden arcade.
Council even ran an open house here. It is a local room, not a Highpoint kiosk.
How do you book, and what do you bring?
Call 0493 601 479 or email sonderstudioscollective@gmail.com. Tattoo consults and hair cuts are different bookings. Bring ID if you are sitting for ink, a reference for the cut if you are here for the barber, and do not assume the coffee counter holds a chair.
Closed Sunday and Monday. Saturday ends early. Walk-in coffee is not a hair appointment. Ask which chair is hair before you sit.
If you wanted African braids, this is the wrong room. Nicholson and Paisley are the braid desks.
Hours and which door
Tuesday 10am-6:30pm, Wednesday 10am-6pm, Thursday 10am-7pm, Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-3pm, closed Sunday and Monday. Confirm on sonderstudioscollective.com. Public holidays override it.
38 Leeds Street, Footscray 3011. Not Thread Lane, not Joseph Road, not French Street.
How do you get to Sonder Studios?
Footscray station, one block off the market onto Leeds, Maddern Square side. Market days fill the kerb. Irving deck or Albert Street plaza if you are driving, then walk. After dark, Barkly and Hopkins are the lit way home, not a cut through the mall.
What do people mix up about Sonder Studios?
They book a haircut and get a tattoo waitlist, or they treat this as Studio Zero. Joseph Road is the conventional high-review barber. Leeds is the collective. They also hunt for it on Barkly. It is Leeds.
Hours change. Last checked 2026-09-17. Saturday 3pm close is the fact first-timers miss.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Sonder Studios?
- 38 Leeds Street, Footscray VIC 3011, Maddern Square. Footscray station. Tattoo collective with barbers, not a colour salon.
- What are Sonder Studios hours?
- Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. Saturday closes 3pm. Confirm on sonderstudioscollective.com. Last checked 2026-09-17.
- How do I get to Sonder Studios from the station?
- One block to Leeds, market side, Maddern Square. After dark leave via Barkly or Hopkins.
- What should I bring to Sonder Studios?
- The right booking: tattoo consult or haircut, not both by accident. ID for ink. Photo for a cut. 0493 601 479.
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