56,000-Square-Foot, Multi-Level Experience Features Dramatic
Interior Installations, Lush Terraces, Rooftop Park, an Interactive
Design Atelier and Expansive Collections from RH Interiors, RH
Modern and RH Outdoor
RH (Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. – NYSE: RH) announced
today the opening of RH Leawood, The Gallery at Town Center Plaza
at 4800 West 119th Street. RH Leawood represents the latest
iteration of the brand’s next-generation design galleries.
Commanding three levels and 56,000 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 Leawood 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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RH Leawood, The Gallery at Town Center
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“Our goal is to blur the lines between residential and retail,
indoors and outdoors, physical and digital, creating spaces that
are more home than store – spaces that inspire both ourselves and
our clients to conceptualize a new and more contemporary way of
living,” says Gary Friedman, RH Chairman & CEO.
RH Leawood 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. "Great architecture is at the core of
our design ethos," Mr. Friedman continued. "We either find it and
readapt it, or as in the case of RH Leawood, we build it."
Conceptualized as a transparent, multi-level contemporary
structure filled with fresh air and natural light, RH Leawood
features a charcoal-grey Venetian plaster exterior with an expanse
of glass-and-steel French doors that open onto a streetscape lined
with white oak and lacebark elm trees, winter gem boxwood and
geometric topiaries. Looking overhead, guests will admire lush
garden terraces on level two and a Rooftop Park with dozens of
quaking aspen trees. As night falls, the building is transformed
through dramatic illumination, highlighting the architectural
details and landscaping.
Visitors will enter the Gallery through striking, 10-foot steel
gates inspired by the work of late-20th-century Venetian architect
Carlo Scarpa, and step into a bluestone and decomposed granite
entry courtyard flanked by dramatic loggias and complemented by the
sound of trickling fountains. Passing through a 25-foot wall of
glass and steel, guests will continue into the Gallery’s central
hall with soaring 13-foot ceilings and a cast-stone Tuscan
colonnade. Once indoors, they will enjoy unobstructed views across
the entire main level to the corresponding courtyard beyond.
Along the periphery, barrel-vaulted passageways lead to a
classical arrangement of rooms with artistic lifestyle
installations featuring RH Interiors collections from
internationally renowned designers, as well as garden courtyards
lush with Boston ivy and sweetbay magnolia trees.
Continuing their journey to the upper floors, visitors will
ascend a grand double floating staircase awash in natural light via
a massive skylight spanning 37 feet, three floors above. A
spectacular installation of 18 Helix crystal chandeliers hanging 50
feet overhead highlights a composition of gilded antique mirrors
cascading down the stairwell to create an endless reflection and
further illuminate the way.
On the second 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 –
showcasing fine art, sculpture and photography from a globally
curated roster of artists – as well as two expansive garden
terraces punctuated by striking crystal and iron chandeliers,
billowing shade canopies and sculptural evergreens.
Level two also features RH Design Atelier – a dedicated
5,000-square-foot studio anchored by two, 25-foot custom tables
offering a fully integrated workspace for architects, designers and
customers 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 Design Services, 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.
At the top of the grand stair, visitors will arrive at the
Rooftop Park. Symmetrically composed in the spirit of the Jardin
des Tuileries in Paris, this nearly 10,000-square-foot garden space
will first be experienced within a vestibule of glass and steel,
complete with towering banana palms, that opens onto a spectacular
grove of quaking aspen trees set within colossal steel planters
accented with European blue fescue. This one-of-a-kind destination
features a beautiful central trellis, white Japanese wisteria,
glimmering chandeliers, trickling fountains, sculptural evergreens
and fragrant lavender that further enhance a dramatic display of
the latest RH Outdoor furnishings.
RH Leawood, The Gallery at Town Center Plaza is located outside
of Kansas City near Overland Park, and can be reached at
816.931.6592. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday from
10am to 8pm, 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 Leawood, The
Gallery at Town Center Plaza, the presentation and layout of RH
Leawood, the Company’s merchandise and business offerings within
this location, including RH Modern, RH Contemporary Art, fully
integrated RH Design Atelier, garden courtyards, expansive
terraces, a Ben Soleimani rug showroom and a rooftop park with
quaking aspen tree grove. 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.
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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
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