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Yay! I love their stuff! It's modern and affordable!! Can't wait!

Damn!

I was totally hoping they'd open in the old Tower Records space on Broadway near Lincoln Center. That space seems tailor-made for them!

Interesting...I had my bets placed on 6th Avenue in the teens/twenties.

I noticed this morning that the website at Brocade Home is now more than a virtual catalog...they now have pages/descriptions for each product.

Hey aaron... I had hoped to meet you (and Regina) at the AT party!! Get Maxwell to take us out for drinks sometime soon! ;)

Sorry I missed you Patrick, I was there early on and had to leave...

P(too) -- the old Tower (which I miss dearly) is going to become a combination TJMaxx and HomeGoods Store -- ugh!

CB2 would be highly preferable.

I miss the Manhattan of my youth -- devoid of big-box stores!

When is Williams-Sonoma Home going to open a showroom in Manhattan?

The Tower in the Village also looks to be largely closed. (I think they may have shrunk to only the Broadway side.)

Good space for somebody!

That so funny. I was actually in Crate and Barrel yesterday and asked a sales rep if CB2 is ever going to make it to the east coast and she said "yes, somewhere in NYC by fall 2007".

Yay! CB2 is one of the things I really have missed since moving to NYC from Chicago in the fall!

Can I sign a petition to get a moratorium on TJMaxx stores in Manhattan? It seems like there's plenty already (actually none would be plenty), and everything about them is so grim -- the signage, the tv ads, the unhappy clientele. Keep the TJMaxx's out in the suburbs, if they have to be anywhere. And while I'm at it, let's pull the plug on Daffy's, Forever 21, and the OMG thug-marts. (Great news about CB2, btw.)

Yep,CB2 would be welcome but I doubt Restoration Hardware will try SoHo again any time soon - with or without Brocade. Their failure in the current Apple store space on Prince followed by their success in the flat iron district is pretty well documented.

CB2 has been a source of numerous finds for me here in Chicago. And it's had time to figure out its identity [it started out sharing a lot of merchandise with parent Crate & Barrel]. Now it's younger, hipper and somewhat cheaper and has more Modern-influenced stuff than Crate & Barrel.

Looks like someone beat me to the punch bringing up the tanked Restoration Hardware in SoHo years ago. Oh well.

Any thoughts on the new Pearl River Home? I haven't been up there yet.

People actually like CB2? I think it's a huge waste of space and the stuff is fairly crappy. There isn't much to choose from, but then again I don't go in for hyper trendy, soon to be gotten over, things in colors that quickly lose fashion.