As part of RH’s continued expansion across North America and Europe, RH Palo Alto, The Gallery at Stanford delivers an immersive luxury lifestyle experience that merges design, retail, and hospitality under one roof.
Challenge
As RH expanded its Gallery concept, the project required a standalone Design Gallery that could seamlessly integrate exclusive products, interior design services, and hospitality within a memorable guest experience. The building also needed to reflect RH’s distinctive architectural vision while meeting California’s sustainability requirements.
Solution
As Architect of Record, our design for the building features a parchment-cream Venetian plaster exterior, with an expanse of glass-and-steel French doors that open onto lush garden courtyards and terraces surrounded by 100-year-old heritage olive trees. Generous courtyards on either side of the grand entrance showcase RH’s Outdoor collection, while a glass-and-steel atrium Rooftop Restaurant on the third level overlooks a landscaped park.
Outcome
RH Palo Alto blurs the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, home and hospitality. Designed to meet California’s CALGreen building code for water and energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and sustainable building materials, the Gallery also incorporates a rooftop solar array that supports long-term environmental performance.
A grand champagne double-floating staircase connects all three levels of the Gallery, creating a dramatic journey through RH’s Interiors, Contemporary, and Modern collections.
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The Rooftop Restaurant is set within a glass-and-steel atrium and surrounded by a landscaped park overlooking Palo Alto
RH (NYSE: RH) is a curator of design, taste and style in the luxury lifestyle market offering home furnishing collections through a retail omnichannel strategy that includes unique Design Galleries. The architecturally inspiring Galleries seamlessly integrate exclusive products and interior design services with a memorable retail and hospitality guest experience. The Company is expanding its successful Gallery concept in large-format spaces in urban and suburban locations across North America and Europe.
As the Architect of Record for RH Palo Alto, The Gallery at Stanford, NORR played an integral role in supporting the Gallery’s design, including the detailed millwork packages. This ground up, three-level, 60,000-square foot building is a standalone Design Gallery developed on an existing pad site adjacent to a premier open-air shopping and dining destination. The project team was responsible for permit management, construction administration and documentation. Work encompassed the development of the backbone to meet California’s CALGreen building code for water and energy efficiencies, indoor air quality and the use of sustainable building materials, incorporating the design for a solar panel array on the roof.
The building features a parchment-cream Venetian plaster exterior, with an expanse of glass-and-steel French doors that open onto lush garden courtyards and terraces surrounded by 100-year-old heritage olive trees. Generous courtyards on either side of the grand entrance showcase RH’s Outdoor collection. Each interior level is connected by a grand champagne double floating staircase, which provides access for guests to experience the artistic installations of RH Interiors, Contemporary and Modern collections. The third level boasts a dramatic glass-and-steel atrium Rooftop Restaurant, surrounded by a beautifully landscaped park.
RH Galleries are inspiring spaces that blur the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, home and hospitality. With a global Retail, Restaurants and Hospitality team, NORR combines our design thinking, planning and execution.
