Restoration Hardware Weighs in With 17-Pound Catalog

Everyone is talking about Restoration Hardware. Not about the massive Moorish, walnut-studded, king-size bed or the vintage leather boarding school boxing gloves you'll find in its vast inventory of home design offerings, but about the formidable shrink-wrapped tower of catalogs from the retailer known for its grand gestures, large furniture and big footprint. Like many Washingtonians, I arrived home a few days ago to find a shrink-wrapped chunk of 13 different Restoration Hardware 2014 catalogs plunked by my front door.