Restoration Hardware Boston Store Not Yet Open

March 17, 2013  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on March 18, 2013 from http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/03/17/after-all-that-new-restoration-hardware-store-still-not-open/FoRttyBjbQxn1xxdXK1GHM/story.html

On March 5, Gary Friedman, the silver-haired CEO emeritus of Restoration Hardware, was warned that a party in Boston the next night to celebrate the opening of his enormous store could get seriously overcrowded.

"We can ask for forgiveness [afterward]," he told the group, according to people who were there.

Friedman denies saying that, but 24 hours later, police and fire officials were indeed summoned to the former Louis Boston building at 234 Berkeley St. to block a horde of smartly dressed men and women trying to shoehorn themselves through the store's gaping steel-and-glass doors.

 

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