gino would be waiting at the door of his establishment , ready to greet the young mr. wendelson ; he would take over the responsibility of wheeling his customers chair over the red and white checkerboard tile flooring , past the row of reclining leather seats and white porcelain wash basins to the cleared space at the very rear of the salon - not a noun that gino himself would ever have used to describe his premises - and would park his client in front of a full length , ornate , gilt-edged mirror , from where the disabled man could watch every minute detail of the subsequent transformation of his appearance .