Store Down

Knox-Henderson home store shutters following founder's exit

Erdos at Home is closing.

Photo courtesy of Erdos at Home

Dallas’ Knox-Henderson area is down one home design store. Following the announcement that interior designer John Erdos is resigning from his namesake company, Erdos at Home, the company announced that it was closing 12 stores around the country — including its Dallas location.

The store opened in early 2016 to much fanfare, offering a unique, highly edited product selection (hence the tagline “a dose of the unexpected”) that set it apart from its more mass-market counterparts. And while Erdos at Home offered a wide range of quality, luxurious design, it boasted an affordable price point similar to that of neighboring stores like Pottery Barn and Crate & Barrel — from $25 tabletop accessories to $4,595 tufted leather couches.

“It’s been a great ride, and I’m very proud of the company we created,” Erdos says in a release. “I’m currently working on some new things and fielding some fun opportunities, so it’s hard to say exactly what’s next for me. But, I can tell you; it’s going to be exciting. I’m not going anywhere, anytime soon.”

Following a 24-year stint in Singapore while working for J. Crew, Erdos moved to Dallas to head up Erdos at Home. He actually established his namesake design business in Singapore, and what started as a hobby turned into an international business that includes celebrity fans like Giorgio Armani, Julia Roberts, Helen Hunt, Susan Sarandon, and others.

While there’s no word yet on exactly when the store will close, we’d suggest stopping by sooner rather than later. Other cities feeling the loss include St. Louis; Oklahoma City; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Birmingham, Alabama; Kansas City, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; Richmond Heights, Missouri; Ridgeland, Mississippi; Rogers, Arkansas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Kitchen News

Kitchen temple Sur La Table to close Knox Street Dallas location

Sur La Table

A longtime home cook favorite in Dallas' Knox Street district is closing: Sur La Table, the nationwide specialty retailer of cookware, kitchen electrics, and bakeware, will close its location at 4525 Cole St. at the end of January.

According to a spokesperson, the location is permanently closing on January 25.

Sales at the store have already begun, with 30 percent off everything in the store.

Sur La Table opened their first store in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1972. From the beginning, their founder Shirley Collins partnered with the world’s best chefs and kitchen brands to bring customers trusted tools to make delicious memories.

Their in-house chefs teach 60,000 cooking classes a year to more than 700,000 people in kitchens and now online.

In addition to offering services like knife-sharpening, and selling gourmet goods which were not available elsewhere at the time, Sur La Table has played host to many chefs and cookbook authors over the years.

They were a "foodie" presence before there was such a thing when they first came to Dallas in 1998, opening off Knox Street, back when it was still a darling collection of shops and not the overdeveloped high-rise hell it is today.

It's tempting to blame the closure on factors such as online shopping; and Sur La Table did go through a pandemic-induced bankruptcy in 2020 when it closed nearly half of its stores.

However, the store's fortunes were not helped when it was forced to depart its original eccentric location at 4527 Travis St. for an invisible storefront on Cole Street, in order to make room for the Knox Hotel and Residences, a 140-room hotel managed by Auberge Resorts Collection, plus 48 ultra-luxury condominiums.

There are two other Sur La Table locations in the DFW area including Preston Royal which opened in 2017, and Southlake which opened in 2015, both of which will remain open. Two other locations — in Fort Worth at the Waterside shopping center, and Plano at Lakeside Village — closed in 2020.