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Big Changes Get a sneak peek of the Darrah & Co. showroom’s massive renovation.
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s we write this, our showroom on the 18th floor of Building 2 is in disarray. Wires hang from the ceiling, plastic sheets protect shelves, and the dust has yet to settle from removed walls. But by the time you arrive in January, we’ll have a beautiful new showroom that will better serve both vendors and retailers. Take a little tour with Darrah & Co. Vice President Lindsay DeMyer.
OUT WITH THE GLASS
The biggest change is that we removed all of the glass windows and doorways. There’s not a piece of glass or doorway anywhere, just gates that fold back up
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Darrah & Co. Winter 2021
into the walls. You can see without obstruction into the showroom spaces. It’s really beautiful. When you come down the hallway, it will be a seamless experience where you can drift in and out without feeling encumbered by a door. It’s also great for vendors because everyone wanted to be in the doorway, and nobody wanted to be behind glass. Now it opens up the same opportunities for everybody. Without the glass, you may be in our showroom without even knowing it. It’s really exciting.
HOSPITALITY
We’ve also updated and refined our
hospitality spaces. We did major renovations on the kitchen, cutting it in half and removing the eat-in part. It’s been reconfigured to be much more efficient. It’s purely for producing food. We created a duplicate kitchen in the other showroom by tearing out the service bar that was there and moving it back toward the offices. In all of that newly created space, we installed a kitchenette with a full-sized refrigerator, wine fridge, sink and ice maker. It will be fully functioning on its own, and we’ll do cafe seating there. It’s a really intentional way of pulling the energy into that middle area where
