Karat Home relaunching Z Gallerie physical stores
/It looks like Z Gallerie, the home furnishings darling of lifestyle centers is slowly ramping up its brick-and-mortar strategy by opening pop-up stores.
Along with other disastrous bankruptcies by home furnishings retailers due to the crash in home buying after interest rates jumped in 2022, the popular chain filed for bankruptcy in 2023, its third bankruptcy filing, and closed all its physical stores.
Fortunately, online furniture retailer Karat Home Inc. acquired the chain out of bankruptcy in January 2024 and kept the Z Gallerie brand selling online.
A year later, Karat Home relaunched Z Gallerie physical stores starting with a warehouse outlet in Gardena, California (south of L.A.) in March 2025 and a 2,000-sq.-ft. pop-up location on a temporary license agreement in Galleria Dallas in Nov. 2025.
Reportedly, Scarlett Fan, now CEO of Z Gallerie and founder of Karat Home wants to open more physical locations in 2026 and is looking at sites in Texas and elsewhere.