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RH Moves into Art Business
May 8,
2013 by in UnCategorized 
By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on May 9, 2013
from http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Retail+giant+moves+into+art+business/29535
Restoration Hardware is entering the art business. The home furnishings company, which has more than 80 stores across the U.S., will launch a division in September devoted to commissioning, exhibiting and selling contemporary art.
The firm has already made its first purchase: Rain Room, 2012, by the British collective Random International. The installation, which uses motion sensors to enable visitors to walk through a downpour without getting wet, is on loan to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where it opens to the public on Sunday as part of the show "Expo 1:New York".
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