Ralph
Owner · Colorist
A hairdresser for more than thirty years, Ralph opened Van Bier to give his team and clients a salon that cares about people, the environment and the community.
Our story
Life truly does go full circle.
Years before Van Bier, Ralph worked at Lola’s Mexican Restaurant at 914 Clinton Street and lived upstairs. Too young then to appreciate the community or the historic building, he left to see where life would take him.
Beauty school was meant to pay for college. Once he started working with hair there was no going back. Over 20+ years he worked in, owned and co‑owned salons across Southeastern Wisconsin, and his passion for hair took him to places far from home.
Along the way he learned to value history alongside the new, and quality and craftsmanship over quantity and excess. Ralph and his partner Tom Bieringer spent years looking for a space that reflected those values. They found it at the same address where the journey began.
Ralph Van Atta & Tom BieringerProprietors
914 Clinton Street · Waukesha, Wisconsin
