60,000-Square-Foot, Multi-Level Experience Features Dramatic
Interior Installations, Lush Garden Courtyards and Terrace, Rooftop
Park & Conservatory with Heritage Olive Trees, 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 Austin, The Gallery at The Domain at 11720
Domain Boulevard. RH Austin represents the latest iteration of the
brand’s next-generation design galleries. Commanding four levels
and over 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 Austin 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 with RH Austin is to reimagine the retail experience
by blurring the lines between residential and retail, indoors and
outdoors, physical and digital – creating an environment that is
more home than store,” says RH Chairman & CEO Gary Friedman.
“We are proud and excited to unveil our latest work in one of
the most innovative and forward-thinking cities in the world.”
RH Austin 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 Austin
features a charcoal-grey Venetian plaster exterior with an expanse
of glass-and-steel French doors that open onto a streetscape lined
with Italian cypress, geometric topiaries, king sago palms and
towering Mexican sycamore trees. Looking overhead, guests will
admire Juliet balconies, a lush garden terrace on level three and a
Rooftop Park & Conservatory with mature heritage olive trees.
As night falls, the building is transformed through dramatic
illumination, highlighting its architectural details and
landscaping.
Visitors arriving at the Gallery via Domain Boulevard will pass
through a dramatic, tripartite entrance – a series of three
glass-and-steel arches towering 30 feet overhead – and continue
into the central hall with soaring 13-foot ceilings and a
cast-stone Tuscan colonnade. Along the periphery,
Palladian-inspired arched passageways lead to a classical
arrangement of rooms with artistic lifestyle installations
featuring RH Interiors collections from internationally renowned
designers.
Arriving via the Gallery’s north and south entrances, guests
will enter through monumental wooden gates into decomposed granite
garden courtyards complete with lush fig ivy, foxtail agave,
coastal rosemary and the sound of trickling fountains. Once
indoors, they will enjoy unobstructed views across the entire main
level to the corresponding courtyard beyond.
Continuing their journey to the upper floors, visitors will
ascend a grand double floating staircase awash in natural light via
a massive skylight spanning 40 feet, four floors above. A
spectacular installation of 22 Helix crystal 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 RH Design Atelier – a nearly
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 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.
On the third level, visitors will discover a 15,000-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
striking crystal and iron chandeliers, and a tracery metal trellis
accented with climbing jasmine pandorea vines.
At the top of the grand stair, guests will arrive at the Rooftop
Park & Conservatory. This 11,000-square-foot garden space will
first be experienced within a structure of glass and steel with
towering banana palms and 18-foot ceilings at its apex. The indoor
space opens onto the spectacular rooftop with mature heritage olive
trees surrounded by decomposed granite and set within colossal
steel planters accented with cascading rosemary. This one-of-a-kind
destination features open-air pavilions, billowing shade canopies,
glimmering chandeliers, trickling fountains, exotic succulents and
fragrant lavender that further enhance a dramatic display of the
latest RH Outdoor furnishings.
RH Austin, The Gallery at the Domain offers valet parking, and
can be reached at 512.342.0614. Hours of operation are 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 Austin, The
Gallery at the Domain, the presentation and layout of RH Austin,
and the Company’s merchandise and business offerings within this
location, including RH Modern, RH Contemporary Art and RH
Design Atelier. 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
make it. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
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