Hundreds turn out for ribbon-cutting at popular home goods store.
Domus owner Margaret Smith poses with a Christmas display in the downtown Los Gatos store, which she recently reopened after more than a decade. Smith, who ran the popular home goods store from 1996 to 2012, says 150 people turned out for the Oct. 3 ribbon-cutting at the new Domus location at 54 N. Santa Cruz Ave.
The store’s return came about after Ed Stahl, the building’s landlord, asked Smith to take over the former Pharmaca space and turn it into Domus. Her immediate reaction was no. Thinking of the investment of money and time it would require, Smith told him, “I just don’t think I can do it.” “I realized this is what people crave: a local store where they can shop hands on. Some things you just don’t want to buy online.”
A recommendation led her to contractor Rafael Hernandez, who took Smith’s photos from the former Domus location and re-created the shelving and layout to suit the new store footprint. Going from 8,500 to 4,000 square feet meant scaling back, but there were certain items she had to carry, like Rosie Rings candles and Blenko Glass water bottles from WV. Blenko has been in business since 1893 and is among the last American glassblowers.
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