Brand’s Newest Next-Generation Design Gallery Debuts as Anchor
Retailer in Major Regional Shopping Center
60,000-Square-Foot Space Features Latest Business Concepts – RH
Modern and RH TEEN, Full-Service Design Ateliers, and a Rooftop Park &
Conservatory with Panoramic Views of Old Tampa Bay
CORTE MADERA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2015--
RH (Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. – NYSE: RH) announced today the
opening of RH Tampa, The Gallery at International Plaza at 2223 North
Westshore Boulevard. RH Tampa represents the latest iteration of the
brand’s next-generation design galleries, which integrates an even
greater assortment of RH collections, including all of the current
offerings and new businesses. Commanding nearly 60,000 total interior
and exterior square feet, this innovative new retail concept and
lifestyle experience features artistic abstractions and
never-before-seen collections of luxury home furnishings in a gallery
setting, including significant presentations of RH’s latest businesses,
RH Modern and RH TEEN.
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“With the unveiling of RH Tampa, our vision is to create an aspirational
space that feels more like a home than a store, while celebrating
Florida’s outdoor lifestyle,” says RH Chairman & CEO Gary Friedman. “By
blurring the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors,
physical and digital, we have created a beautiful setting for people to
congregate and be inspired by their surroundings.”
RH Tampa marks Friedman’s continued 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, multi-level classical contemporary
building filled with fresh air and natural light, RH Tampa features an
elegant charcoal grey exterior with over 100 pairs of glass-and-steel
French doors that open onto a streetscape of towering silver date palms
and garden walls with fig ivy. Looking overhead, guests will admire an
expanse of Juliet balconies, garden terraces on levels two and three,
and a Rooftop Park & Conservatory with a canopy of sugar palms. As night
falls, the building’s architectural details and gardens illuminate in a
warm, painterly glow.
Upon entering the Gallery, visitors will pass through 12-foot steel
gates inspired by the work of late 20th-century Venetian
architect Carlos Scarpa and a dramatic tripartite entrance – a series of
three arches towering nearly 30 feet overhead – before stepping into a
bluestone entry courtyard punctuated by giant Foucault’s Orb crystal
chandeliers, white birds of paradise, King Sago Palms and the sound of
trickling fountains. They will then continue into the central hall with
soaring 13-foot ceilings and a cast-stone Tuscan colonnade. At the
periphery, Palladian-inspired barrel-vaulted passageways lead to a
classical arrangement of rooms with artistic lifestyle installations
featuring luxury home furnishings collections from internationally
renowned designers and artisans, as well as decomposed granite
courtyards complete with geometric topiaries, sago palms and exotic
succulents.
Continuing their journey to the upper floors, guests will ascend a
nearly 29-foot grand double staircase awash in natural light via a
massive skylight four floors above. A spectacular installation of 23
Helix chandeliers hanging nearly 66 feet overhead highlights a
composition of gilded antique mirrors cascading down the stairwell to
create an endless reflection and further illuminate the way.
Arriving on the second level, visitors will discover a
12,000-square-foot exhibition space presenting RH Modern, the largest
curated and fully-integrated assortment 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 reflects an
entirely new design vernacular that represents a fresh and innovative
point of view, defined by a minimalist aesthetic and maximum comfort. RH
Contemporary Art – which is now a part of RH Modern – is also integrated
throughout this space as part of the brand’s plan to make original works
from globally curated artists more accessible.
Level two also features the RH Design Atelier – a dedicated full-service
studio for interior designers, architects and guests to conceptualize
highly personalized, inspiring spaces. The space showcases RH’s vast
library of fabrics, leathers and furniture finishes, as well as the
latest technology and capabilities to support an unprecedented level of
design services. The Design Atelier also features a Ben Soleimani rug
showroom displaying the fourth-generation designer’s hand-knotted and
hand-woven rugs, as well as specialized galleries for window treatments,
bed and bath linens, and bath hardware.
RH TEEN and RH Baby & Child share the entire third level, each with
dedicated Design Ateliers. Here, visitors will find tasteful,
high-quality furnishings for children and young adults that are
distinctive in their own right, but blend seamlessly with the rest of
the home. The third level also features an expansive outdoor garden
terrace with steel awnings and lush tropicals.
At the top of the grand stair, guests will arrive at the Rooftop Park &
Conservatory. This 13,000-square-foot garden space will first be
experienced within a glass-and-steel structure with towering banana
palms and 18-foot ceilings at its apex. The indoor space opens onto a
massive open-air pavilion surrounded by podocarpus hedges and a canopy
of sugar palms set within colossal steel planters. This one-of-a-kind
destination features billowing shade canopies, glimmering chandeliers
and trickling fountains that further enhance intimate vignettes of RH
Outdoor furnishings and frame panoramic views of Old Tampa Bay.
RH Tampa, The Gallery at International Plaza can be reached at
813.258.9062. Hours of operation will be Monday through Saturday from
10am to 9pm, and Sunday 11am until 6pm.
About RH, Restoration Hardware
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.
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 Tampa, the presentation and layout
of RH Tampa, the Company’s merchandise and business offerings within
this location, including RH Modern, RH Design Ateliers, a Ben Soleimani
rug showroom, RH TEEN and RH Baby & Child. 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’
Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on March 27, 2015, 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 make it. We undertake no obligation to
publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of
new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be
required by any applicable securities laws.
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RH
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