Restoration Hardware Opens New Concept in Buckhead

BUCHKHEAD, GA—Restoration Hardware has opened its new retail concept called RH Atlanta, The Gallery at the Estate in Buckhead that features almost 70,000 square feet of home furnishings in a gallery-styled setting.

The Corte Madera, CA-based retailer reports the new store opened on Nov. 21 and features six floors of retail space that includes a six-story, grand double staircase spanning 36 feet, with custom-designed iron handrails inspired by the late 20th-century Venetian architect, Carlo Scarpa. A total of 36 beaded crystal chandeliers hanging nearly 100 feet overhead plays off mirrored walls and windows to illuminate the climb to the upper floors of the building at 3030 Peachtree Road NW.

"Our vision is to create a space that blurs the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, online and offline, and celebrates both the creative past and present of Atlanta," says RH chairman and CEO Gary Friedman. "The Gallery at The Estate in Buckhead is a study and reflection of human design in regards to balance, symmetry, and proportion, while respecting the integration of environment, architecture, and humanity to create a feeling of harmony."

RH Atlanta sits on nearly two acres and marks Friedman's continued collaboration with design architect James Gillam of Backen, Gillam & Kroeger.

The first three floors feature the largest expression to date of RH Interiors' curated collections of living, dining, bedroom and bathroom furniture, lighting, furnishings and accessories. The brand's first physical representation of RH Small Spaces and an RH Baby & Child gallery occupy the entire fourth and fifth floors at nearly 8,000 square feet each.

RH Atlanta also features a conservatory and rooftop park. This expansive space offers a structure of glass and steel with 20-foot ceilings at its apex. Here, customers will discover  wraparound terraces featuring sculpted evergreen trees and topiaries, exotic succulents and panoramic views of Buckhead and downtown Atlanta's skyline.

"Our goal is to transform the traditional retail model from a way to shop to a way to live," Friedman says. "Most shopping centers and retail malls are archaic windowless boxes, lacking any sense of humanity. We don't want to change the face of retail, but rather give it a soul."

The store also includes a Ben Soleimani Rug Showroom displaying the fourth-generation designer's exclusive hand-knotted and hand-woven rugs and an RH Design Studio.