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Capitol Hill is dead — The Rhino Room is selling couches

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Six months after going dark and quietly ending its 11-year run of Capitol Hill nightlife, the former Rhino Room space at 11th and Pine is suddenly filled with furniture as custom retailer Couch has moved to Capitol Hill from Ballard.

“Pick one of our thoughtfully designed styles or work with us to come up with a new variation. We are custom builders in the truest sense of the word,” the store’s pitch goes. “Custom elsewhere can mean you get to choose blue instead of gray. At Couch it means you design a sofa in your exact size, style and comfort specifications.” Continue reading →

Furniture retailer Joybird to land on Capitol Hill in former Pike/Pine music shop space

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Powered by ecommerce and online social influence, another buzzworthy, multimillion dollar retail brand has selected Capitol Hill as its choice for Pacific Northwest expansion.

Joybird, an online furniture retail play gobbled up by La-Z-Boy for $75 million in 2018, is readying plans for a new Seattle showroom on Capitol Hill’s 10th Ave.

According to city permits, the new store is set to take over the 6,200-square-foot space left empty since the 2021 exit of music shop Everyday Music. Everyday had been resident in the space — formerly used as a parking garage — for ten years. Continue reading →

For E Pike’s Arden Home, a new name and, hopefully, a new connection with the neighborhood

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With its first incarnation shadowed by a controversy over interpretation of its longtime brand, Katie Largent is hoping for a better start for Arden Home.

“The change was really bigger than all of the controversy,” Largent said of the backlash that formed when Plantation Design — a Los Angeles-born provider of the botanical motifs, woven surfaces, and shutters of the plantation style of interior design — expanded to San Francisco and Seattle. Continue reading →

New Pike/Pine design and furniture showroom finds Plantation name worked in LA, won’t work in Seattle

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Looking out from the showroom that will not be Plantation Design (Image: CHS)

Looking out from the showroom that will not be Plantation Design (Image: CHS)

Times change. If Plantation Design was born in any other era than the late 1990s, it might be known as Midcentury Modern Design or Flat Pack Scandinavian Design. But the new furniture and design boutique that just opened in Capitol Hill’s Pike Motorworks development was born when Southern Californians were into the plantation look of botanical motifs, woven surfaces, and shutters, apparently.

“We’re a small business and we’re back where we have roots,” Katie Largent tells CHS.

She also says the work has begun on a branding change. Plantation Design worked for around 17 years in Los Angeles and another showroom in San Francisco. But in Seattle and with the current awareness around the Black Lives Matter movement, the name has brought online criticism and a change of heart. Continue reading →