70,000-Square-Foot, Four-Level Design Experience Blurs the
Lines Between Residential and Retail, Indoors and Outdoors, Home
and Hospitality with an Integrated Courtyard Café, an Interactive
Design Atelier and Rooftop Conservatory & Park
CORTE MADERA, CA, Oct. 27, 2017 /CNW/ - RH (Restoration Hardware
Holdings, Inc. – NYSE: RH) announced today the opening of RH
Toronto, The Gallery at Yorkdale. RH Toronto represents the latest iteration of the
brand's design galleries and its continued foray into hospitality
with a seamlessly integrated culinary offering by celebrated
restaurateur and founding president of RH Hospitality, Brendan Sodikoff, which includes the RH
Courtyard Café and Barista Bar.
Commanding four levels and nearly 70,000 total interior and
exterior square feet, this innovative retail concept features
artistic installations of home furnishings in a gallery setting,
including entire floors dedicated to RH Interiors, RH Modern and RH
Outdoor. RH Toronto also includes
an interactive Design Atelier, offering professional interior
design services in a studio environment.
"The vision for our new design galleries has been to blur the
lines between residential and retail, and create spaces that are
more home than store. The next logical step was to further blur the
lines between home and hospitality, with an integrated restaurant,
wine and coffee bar," says RH Chairman & CEO Gary Friedman.
Mr. Friedman continued, "What we are doing goes far beyond
attaching a restaurant onto a store – that's been done before.
What's unique is we've created a completely integrated hospitality
experience, led by famed Chicago
restaurateur Brendan Sodikoff, that
reflects our taste, style and point of view. We're proud to bring
this first-of-its-kind concept to Toronto, one of the most metropolitan cities
in the world."
Sodikoff is the founder, CEO and creative director of Hogsalt
Hospitality, a rapidly growing Chicago-based restaurant group spanning 14
concepts and 15 locations. Hogsalt's portfolio includes nationally
acclaimed establishments Au Cheval, Bavette's, Doughnut Vault, and
Gilt Bar in Chicago, as well as
his first restaurant in New York –
4 Charles Prime Rib, an intimate supper club in the West Village.
Sodikoff has been named one of Chicago Magazine's "100 Most
Powerful People in Chicago" and
one of Crain's "40 Under 40." He has also been recognized by
Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and the Food Network, among
others.
"I've felt a connection to Toronto for years. It's a city of innovation
and inspiration. I'm excited to join Toronto's vibrant restaurant culture and look
forward to spending more time there with the opening of RH,"
Sodikoff said.
RH Toronto 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 contemporary structure filled
with fresh air and natural light, RH Toronto features an expanse of
glass-and-steel French doors that open onto a streetscape with
Boston ivy, geometric topiaries
and towering trees rising out of a continuous boxwood hedge.
The gallery's eastern entrance within Yorkdale Shopping Centre
features a beautifully-terraced façade of Venetian plaster and a
lush interior courtyard flanked by dramatic open-air loggias
serving as the central location for the gallery's hospitality
experience, the Courtyard Café. Here, guests can sit beneath
heritage olive trees and a 140-foot-wide skylight that washes the
entire space with natural light while they enjoy a seasonal,
ingredient-driven menu accompanied by a curated selection of
artisanal wines and craft beers. This all-seasons oasis features
elegant banquette seating layered with green velvet boxwood
hedging, cascading English ivy, trickling fountains, glimmering
lanterns and 19th C. Rococo crystal chandeliers.
Arriving to the gallery from the west, visitors will pass
through a 24-foot-wide by 24-foot-tall threshold of glass and
steel. Continuing into the gallery's central hall with soaring
14-foot ceilings, guests will find the RH Barista Bar – a dramatic
focal point defined by a Tuscan colonnade and facet-edged limestone
slabs. Here, skilled baristas approach coffee as an art, and guests
can enjoy fresh house-made doughnuts and
pastries. Barrel-vaulted passageways lead to a classical
arrangement of rooms featuring RH Interiors collections from
internationally renowned artisans and designers.
Continuing their journey to the upper floors, visitors will
ascend a grand double floating staircase spanning nearly 40 feet.
Natural light emanates from a second massive skylight four floors
above, while a spectacular installation of 23 crystal Helix
Chandeliers hanging 62 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 the RH Design Atelier – a 5,000-square-foot
studio anchored by four, 15-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 team trained in the RH design ethos to create
functional and elegant spaces. A place for collaboration and
ideation, the Design Atelier features access to RH's vast library
of fabrics, leathers and furniture and lighting finishes –
providing an unprecedented level of design services.
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, visitors will discover a 12,000-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 experience is punctuated by a rhythmic
progression of glass and steel French doors with corresponding
Juliet balconies that line the perimeter of the floor.
At the top of the grand stair, guests will arrive at the
Conservatory & Rooftop Park. The 12,000-square-foot garden
space will first be experienced within a structure of glass and
steel with towering banana palms, heritage olive trees, exotic
succulents, and 20-foot ceilings at its apex. The indoor space
opens onto a spectacular rooftop with mature Himalayan birch trees
set within colossal steel planters accented with cascading English
ivy. This one-of-a-kind destination features open-air pavilions,
glimmering chandeliers and trickling fountains that further enhance
intimate vignettes of RH Outdoor collections and frame iconic views
of the Toronto skyline.
RH Toronto, The Gallery at
Yorkdale is located at 3401 Dufferin Street and can be reached at
416.322.9422. Hours of operation will be Monday through Friday from
10am to 9pm, Saturday 9:30am to 9pm, and Sunday 11am until 7pm.
About RH
RH (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
innovative retail concept and integrated hospitality experience at
RH Toronto, The Gallery at Yorkdale, statements regarding the level
of design services offered at the RH Design Atelier, statements
regarding the Conservatory & Rooftop Park being a one-of-a-kind
destination, and similar statements. You can identify
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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 RH's most recent Annual Report on
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