Pottery Barn opens in Bethesda (Photos)

This past weekend witnessed the long-awaited Grand Opening of Pottery Barn, and Pottery Barn Kids, on Bethesda Avenue. Both are located in the ground floor of the new Flats at Bethesda Avenue luxury apartments. Now that the barn doors are open, let's take a tour of the store:

Pottery Barn Kids

Excelsior!
The Avengers bedding set
at Pottery Barn Kids

Pottery Barn opening Friday on Bethesda Ave.; free gift with purchase

Pottery Barn will open its new Bethesda store this Friday, June 5, at 4750 Bethesda Avenue. Located in the ground floor of the new Flats at Bethesda Avenue apartments, the store will host a grand opening celebration all weekend.

You will get a free mystery gift with any purchase, while supplies last. There will also be refreshments and decorating demonstrations throughout the weekend.

They've been moving merchandise in over the last week from their recently-closed Mazza Gallerie location.

Pottery Barn set to move from Mazza Gallerie to Bethesda Avenue

Pottery Barn has announced its Mazza Gallerie location will close on May 25. The store is moving to the Flats at Bethesda Avenue apartment building across from Barnes and Noble, and the company says it will open in June.

The Mazza Gallerie store is having a closing sale with "incredible prices," Pottery Barn said in its announcement. Customers are being directed to the home decor chain's Clarendon and Tysons locations between May 25 and the June grand opening in Bethesda.

BETHESDA ROW CONSTRUCTION UPDATE (PHOTOS)

We're starting to get a better sense of the scale and footprint of The Flats and The Darcy, rising fairly quickly at the (future) intersection of Bethesda and Woodmont Avenues. The Lot 31 project is being developed by StonebridgeCarras, and will also include a 900-space parking garage that will run beneath both buildings and Woodmont Avenue.

Street level of The Flats (L)
will house Passion Fish

A look down the future
Woodmont Avenue toward
Barnes and Noble

Part of The Flats (L) and
The Darcy (R); the new
Woodmont Avenue will
run in-between them

The yet-to-be-named Silver Diner
"concept" restaurant will be
in the curved part of The Darcy
you see behind the "Road Closed"
signage

Grab a copy of The Gazette,
why don't you?

The lighted front of Barnes and Noble
can be seen in the distance

I don't always rent cranes, but
when I do, it's from Miller and Long

The Flats

The Flats (foreground) and
The Darcy (background)

The Sacks neighborhood, which a
developer tried to buy and demolish
a few years ago, to extend the
urban district toward
Little Falls Stream Valley Park

Future Pottery Barn (R)

POTTERY BARN, POTTERY BARN KIDS TO OPEN AT BETHESDA ROW

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Two big names in retail are coming to downtown Bethesda. Pottery Barn, and Pottery Barn Kids will open a massive, 2-story 16,608 square foot store in The Darcy, currently under construction at Bethesda and Woodmont Avenues. The high-end condominium building already has several restaurant tenants, including Paul bakery, a new Silver Diner concept, and Chopt.

Pottery Barn recently closed at White Flint Mall, and opened a location nearby at Mazza Gallerie. For the few unfamiliar with the ubiquitous brand, Pottery Barn carries indoor and outdoor furniture, decor and accessories for home living and entertaining. Pottery Barn Kids sells kids' and baby bedding, furniture and toys. Appropriately enough, Pottery Barn Kids just happens to sell a line of beds and cribs called "Darcy." Take note, future parents wealthy enough to live in The Darcy!

The Darcy is part of a large-scale redevelopment project across from Federal Realty's Bethesda Row. This project also includes a second luxury building, The Flats, and a 900-space underground public parking garage. The site was formerly home to Public Parking Lot 31 and Lot 31-A. Woodmont Avenue will be realigned and rebuilt to accommodate the new development. StonebridgeCarras and P.N. Hoffman are the developers of the project.

Opening day is quite a ways off still, as the photo above makes obvious. For now, here's a preview of Pottery Barn's Summer 2014 collection: