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116 AUSTINWAY.COM PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF RESTORATION HARDWARE Among the new high-end stores at Domain Northside stands the four-story, 60,000-plus-square-foot RH Gallery, which, with its Venetian plaster exterior, cypress trees, and Juliet balconies looks like an inviting Italian villa. Designed by award-winning architect James Gillam of Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, RH Austin (formerly Restoration Hardware) offers a floor dedicated to its RH Modern line of home furnishings and accessories that launched last year, along with the RH Contemporary Art collection showcasing emerging global artists; it also includes a full-service Design Atelier, the Ben Soleimani Rug Showroom, and a standout 11,000-square-foot rooftop park complete with banana palms, sculptural evergreens, and topiary. We caught up with Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman, who came to Austin for the grand opening this fall. What do you want to inspire in clients with the magnitude and design of the new RH Gallery at Domain Northside? We want to create one-of-a-kind retail environments that blur the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, physical and digital---spaces where we can showcase the comprehen- sive breadth of our offerings in dramatic and aspirational installations unseen before. Your opening-night party brought out a who's who THE ART OF LIVING THE STUNNING, MASSIVE NEW RH GALLERY AT DOMAIN NORTHSIDE WAS DESIGNED TO INSPIRE AND ELEVATE THE HOME RETAIL EXPERIENCE. BY KATHY BLACKWELL One floor of the new RH Gallery is devoted to the RH Modern collection. SPACE GRAND OPENING