60,000-Square-Foot, Four-Level Design Gallery Features Dramatic
Interior Installations Showcasing Collections From RH Interiors, RH
Modern and RH Outdoor, an Interactive Design Atelier, Lush Garden
Courtyard and Terrace, and Rooftop Park & Conservatory
RH (Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. – NYSE:RH) announced
today the opening of RH Seattle, The Gallery at University Village
at 4645 26th Avenue NE. RH Seattle represents the latest iteration
of the brand’s next-generation design galleries. Commanding four
levels and nearly 60,000 total interior and exterior square feet,
this innovative new retail experience features artistic
installations of home furnishings in a gallery setting – including
an entire floor dedicated to RH Modern with an integrated RH
Contemporary Art Gallery. RH Seattle also includes an interactive
Design Atelier, a professional workspace that allows customers,
designers and architects to conceptualize and customize a home.
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“Our vision for RH Seattle is to reimagine the retail experience
by blurring the lines between residential and retail, indoors and
outdoors, physical and digital, creating a space that is more home
than store,” says RH Chairman & CEO Gary Friedman. “We believe
the most pleasing design is a reflection of human design, thus RH
Seattle is a study of balance, symmetry and the golden mean.”
RH Seattle marks Friedman’s ongoing collaboration with design
architect James Gillam of Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, a firm
recognized as one of Architectural Digest’s Top 100 architect and
design firms in the world.
Conceptualized as a grand-scale, classical contemporary
structure filled with fresh air and natural light, RH Seattle
features a charcoal-grey Venetian plaster and brick exterior with
an expanse of glass-and-steel French doors that open onto a
streetscape defined by Japanese boxwood, Italian cypress and
sweetbay magnolia trees. Looking overhead, guests will admire
Juliet balconies, an expansive garden terrace on level three and a
Rooftop Park & Conservatory with mature white crepe myrtle
trees. As night falls, the building is transformed through dramatic
illumination, highlighting its architectural details and
landscaping.
Visitors arriving to the gallery via NE University Village
Street will pass through a dramatic tripartite entrance – a series
of three glass-and-steel openings towering 30 feet overhead –
anchored by a garden courtyard with New Zealand flax, geometric
topiaries and a trickling central fountain. Guests will then
continue into a central hall with soaring 13-foot ceilings and a
cast-stone Tuscan colonnade. Along the periphery,
Palladian-inspired passageways lead to a classical arrangement of
rooms with artistic lifestyle installations featuring RH Interiors
collections from internationally renowned artisans and
designers.
Arriving via the gallery’s 26th Avenue NE entrance, visitors
will enjoy unobstructed views across the entire main level
compliments of an arched corridor punctuated by a series of 19th
Century Rococo Chandeliers. Continuing their journey to the upper
floors, guests will ascend a grand double floating staircase
spanning nearly 40 feet, with custom-designed iron handrails
inspired by the work of late 20th-century Venetian architect, Carlo
Scarpa. Natural light emanates from a massive skylight four floors
above, and a spectacular installation of 20 crystal Helix
Chandeliers hanging 60 feet overhead highlights a composition of
gilded antique mirrors cascading down the stairwell to create an
endless reflection and further illuminate the way.
Level two features RH Design Atelier – a 4,000-square-foot
studio anchored by four, 10-foot custom tables offering a fully
integrated workspace for customers, designers and architects to
reimagine one room or an entire home, inside and out. Here, guests
can work with a highly experienced team trained in the RH
design ethos to create functional and elegant spaces. A
place for collaboration and ideation, RH Design Atelier features
access to RH’s vast library of fabrics, leathers and furniture and
lighting finishes – providing an unprecedented level of design
services.
“With the introduction of RH Interior Design, we have now moved
the brand beyond creating and selling product to conceptualizing
and selling spaces,” says Mr. Friedman.
Additional RH Design Atelier resources include a Ben Soleimani
rug showroom displaying the fourth-generation designer’s
hand-knotted and hand-woven rugs, and other specialized galleries
for window treatments, bed and bath linens and bath hardware.
On the third level, guests will discover a 10,000-square-foot
exhibition space presenting RH Modern, one of the largest curated
and fully-integrated assortments of modern furnishings, lighting
and décor under one brand in the world. Developed in collaboration
with a select group of acclaimed global designers, RH Modern’s
design vernacular represents a fresh and innovative point of view,
defined by a minimalist aesthetic, the finest materials and maximum
comfort. This immersive space incorporates RH Contemporary Art –
offering a curated and engaging collection of artwork across all
media – along with an expansive garden terrace punctuated by
cascading Thorndale English ivy, striking crystal and iron
chandeliers and tracery metal trellises accented with white
Japanese wisteria.
At the top of the grand stair, visitors will arrive at the
Rooftop Park & Conservatory. This 10,000-square-foot garden
space will first be experienced within a structure of glass, wood
and steel with towering banana palms. The indoor space opens onto a
spectacular rooftop anchored by a series of monolithic bluestone
slabs embedded in decomposed granite that lead to a circular La
Vielle fountain. This one-of-a-kind destination features open-air
pavilions, mature white crepe myrtle trees set within colossal
steel planters accented with cascading rosemary, European blue
fescue, sculptural evergreens, billowing shade canopies and
glimmering chandeliers that further enhance a dramatic display of
the latest RH Outdoor furnishings.
RH Seattle, The Gallery at University Village can be reached at
206.522.2775. Hours of operation will be Monday through Saturday
from 10am to 8pm, and Sunday 11am until 6pm.
About RH
RH (Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. - NYSE: RH) is a curator
of design, taste and style in the luxury lifestyle market. The
Company offers collections through its retail galleries, source
books and online at RH.com,
RHModern.com and Waterworks.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements
related to the customer experience when visiting RH Seattle, The
Gallery at University Village, the presentation and layout of RH
Seattle, and the Company’s merchandise and business offerings
within this location, including RH Modern, RH Interiors,
RH Contemporary Art, RH Design Atelier, RH Interior Design,
the Rooftop Park & Conservatory and RH Outdoor. You can
identify forward-looking statements by the fact that they do not
relate strictly to historical or current facts. We cannot assure
you that future developments affecting us will be those that we
have anticipated. Important risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations
include, among others, risks related to the number of new business
initiatives we are undertaking; our ability to introduce new
products and merchandise categories that will be of interest to our
customers and to new customers; as well as those risks and
uncertainties disclosed under the sections entitled “Risk Factors”
and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations” in Restoration Hardware Holdings’ most
recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, and similar disclosures in subsequent
reports filed with the SEC, which are available on our investor
relations website at ir.restorationhardware.com and on the SEC
website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statement made by
us in this press release speaks only as of the date on which we
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