Z GALLERIE SCOTTSDALE - REOPENING STORE TOUR

Thursday night, the hubs and I ventured up to Scottsdale to check out the ReOpening of Z Gallerie in the Scottsdale Fashion Center. The store was recently remodeled and now has a brighter, more spacious shopping environment plus rich dark floors. I've always enjoyed touring Z Gallerie stores; they are a wonderful source top shop or place to go to for glam inspiration. In my opinion, Z Gallerie is one of the masters of home store visual merchandising, with their colorblocked merchandise stories told through impactful store vignettes. But that was the one major difference I noticed while touring the store Thursday night. The palette of the assortment has changed -- it's still beautiful -- please don't get me wrong -- the color story strength has been refreshed and is now coming from a metal mix of silver and gold: on trend brassy tones, polished silver, and aged mercury -- paired with creamy whites, taupes and greys. To see the changes over time, I've listed links to my previous Z Gallerie store tours at the bottom of this post. It's interesting to see the changes which have been in South Florida and here in Arizona! Enjoy my most recent Z Gallerie store tour of the beautifully renovated Scottsdale location...

 

 

 

 

 

 

This corner vignette reminded me a little bit of Miami - Must have been seeing the fossil shell, coral and greens...

 

Love the solid organic design paired with a modern metal finish...

 

 

The actual "gallery" was the only place I spotted strong splashes of color - the merchandise assortment now is a more sophisticated & modern neutral palette...

 

The location of this Z Gallerie is centered inside of Scottsdale Fashion Square. I wish more people had come to the store for the reopening event - but it's possible they were either at another event happening inside the mall or they may have already come to the soft opening the store had the week before...

 

While the store now looks gorgeous with all of its openness and bright light, the mall itself may be in need of a little updating now (it was so dark!) Either way - I still enjoyed touring the store, taking photos of all the beautiful new pieces, and spoke with the manager about some of the online goods to be arriving to the store shortly. While I was taking my pics, there was also a photographer taking photos of the store too...

Here are the links to my prior Z Gallerie store tours...

A VISIT TO Z GALLERIE - SCOTTSDALE 2012

"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Some stores just "get it". They understand the power of presentation. They create inspirational focal points in practically every line-of-site. They put together approachable compositions, with such clarity and impact it just makes you smile because you admire and want everything in sight - especially the aubergine!"

Z GALLERIE SUMMER SET - ARIZONA 2012

"One of my favorite stores I would frequently visit back in South Florida was Z Gallerie. I love their execution of bold color blocked statements used for impact & clarity in their visual merchandising presentation." 

 STORE TOUR: Z GALLERIE SPRING SOUTH MIAMI 2011

"I'm totally in LOVE with the refreshed look welcoming customers at the entry of Z Gallerie in South Miami! What I love about it so much is the refreshed color palette - vibrant and paired more with white - than with gray, black or brown. They even highlighted their all white sofa more by keeping the sofa simple, and framing it with strong color blocked vignettes. These settings are oh-so South Florida and perfect for Resort Markets."

STORE TOUR - Z GALLERIE - PEMBROKE 2010

"Some stores just "get it". They understand the power of presentation. They create inspirational focal points in practically every line-of-site. They put together approachable compositions, with such clarity and impact it just makes you sigh (a good sigh) because you admire (and want) everything in site! One such store who has mastered the art of visual presentation is Z Gallerie."

Z GALLERIE
Scottsdale Fashion Square
 7014 East Camelback Road, #544
Scottsdale, AZ  85251
(480) 947-1277


Do you have a Z Gallerie near you? 
Where is it located and what is it like?

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SNEAK PEEK: CHANDLER OFFICE REDESIGN

Seeing an email of four little words brought a smile to my face: "your order has shipped" means I can continue the course as planned! The plan isn't for me, but for a doctor's office makeover & update project I'm working on - my first here in Arizona! Happy and grateful for it. The project had first started out as helping to pick out a replacement sofa... and then some chairs... then the office space... and grew to include updating the adjoining reception area. For the reception area, I picked out a pair of stripe slipper chairs from the Angelo Surmelis Bradstreet collection I spotted on Wayfair.com. Before purchasing them, I wanted to see a swatch of the actual colors - but at the site, none were available. Not a problem though: I occasionally tweet with Angelo, so I sent him a DM (Direct Message) to ask if a swatch was available, and he gave me the email of a contact. About two weeks later, I received a postcard image of the chair (as a settee - looks great!) with a swatch. When I went to my second meeting for the office makeover, I was able to share the image and swatch with my client - and she loved it. After firming up a few other selections for the makeover, I placed the order and it's shipping! Now I need to brave the cold temps outside to re-organize the garage to make space for this Wayfair order... plus a few other items I picked up locally and the pieces I'm having shipped here for the makeover. Here's a peek at the process...

Sample from Angelo...

 

Love the look for the space - Just may need to stain the legs a little darker: more black - less red. 

 

Using Olioboard, I was able to create these info pages, making it easier to make selections during my second meeting with the client. Keeping all project info (samples, Olioboards, sources) together in a binder makes it SO easy to show during meet-ups and when shopping locally.

 

Bradstreet Slipper Chair pair - by Angelo Surmelis - at Wayfair

I actually got these for a really good price. When I first saw them online in December, they were on sale then back to regular price, then on sale again PLUS an extra 10% off!

Having extra samples of paint swatches makes it much easier to carry into store to match VS the entire color deck. I also picked up the two wall color paint samples at my local Benjamin Moore (Desert Green for main office area and Jack In The Beanstalk for the reception area). Since the green changes color with lighting and other items in the space, I also picked up a color I found online called "Unusual Grey" (and oh is it!) from Sherwin Williams. I'm painting these onto foamcore panels as samples rather than mess up her walls (she still needs to see clients).

 

 Blossom Melody Canvas at Z Gallerie 

Above is wall art for the reception area I spotted online at ZGallerie. When we went on a shopping trip two weeks ago, I showed it to my client and she REALLY liked it - but it's $300. We're not totally removing it from the plan - it depends on other expenses. I spotted an option for less the other day when I popped into World Market, and it's on sale...

 

 

Garden Party at World Market

 Going vertical in the small space may actually work better...

And it will still have the same feel from mixing the graphic stripe chair with the organic abstract wall art...

 

(existing reception area space)

After spending a day together shopping, I observed more about my client to make me revise my plan. Above is my original concept for the reception area + counseling area. The counseling area is a little too contrasting with the B&W pattern. To sooth & calm the space, but still have pattern, I opted for more grey & white pattern with touches of black. To give more light to the space (gets very dark in the late evening when she is still seeing clients) I'm going for white drum shades...

 

Original counseling area concept (above)

Revised counseling area concept (below) 

I really wanted to have used these window panels (below) in the counseling area, but the actual pair in the store (JCP) has a more warm-taupe background VS the more icy-cool image shown online. Since there is a taupe stripe in the  slipper chairs, I'll use them in the reception area.

Steeple Grey Studio Hudson panels at JCP.

Although these panels are on back-order online, they are available at the store.

 

Chloe Sofa in slate at Macy's.

The sofa was ordered too, but that will take a little longer to ship out because the grey fabric selected wasn't a stock fabric - The sofa is scheduled to arrive in LA by early March, and be delivered the following week, which is when the space will be painted, and new light fixtures will be installed. Although I was hesitant on the fabric selection (only available in velvet) the classic style & tufting are great for the space - but more importantly the SIZE is perfect. This was the first sofa choice I had shown my client, and any other option just didn't measure-up. Seriously: many sofas are 80+ inches and love seats are too small. This is an apartment size sofa at 76" which will fit perfectly to replace the existing sofa.

 Ordering the screen today - The organic print will give balance to the graphic prints in the space plus relate to the existing (and sentimental) wall art: a trio of signed Tao prints.

I'm still hunting for a pair of (reasonably priced) oval back chairs - preferably in an ebony finish with a grey & white pattern. I'm not opposed to thrifting & refinishing them myself, but haven't found them here yet. Maybe today will be my lucky day :) 

Wish me luck

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