Tom Bazzone, formerly president and coo of RedEnvelope (San Francisco), an online gift retailer, will become executive vp and coo of Restoration Hardware, the upscale Corte Madera, Calif.-based housewares retailer, effective July 16, 2001.
RedEnvelope's stylish, elegant web site is reminiscent – in some product offerings as well as its presumed target audience, choosy consumers with the ability to afford pricy goods – of the Restoration Hardware retail approach.
Before joining RedEnvelope in 1999, Bazzone held various positions at Williams-Sonoma Inc. (San Francisco), including vp of merchandise operations for the direct-to-customer division. He started his retail career at Grossman's (Stoughton, Mass.), then the nation's third-largest home improvement chain, where he spent 10 years in various merchandising and operations positions.