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Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the RH First Quarter 2022 Results Conference call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]

I'd now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Allison Malkin. Please go ahead.

Allison Malkin - Investor Relations

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Gary Friedman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Jack Preston, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we start, I would like to remind you of our legal disclaimer that we will make certain statements today that are forward-looking within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements about the outlook of our business and other matters referenced in our press release issued today. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to our SEC filings, as well as our press release issued today for a more detailed description of the risk factors that may affect our results.

Please also note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this call, and we undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Also during this call, we may discuss non-GAAP financial measures, which adjust our GAAP results to eliminate the impact of certain items. You will find additional information regarding these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of these non-GAAP to GAAP measures in today's financial results press release. A live broadcast of this call is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website at ir.rh.com.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Gary.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Great. Thank you, Allison, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us, as we review - we'll start with the Shareholder Letter to our people partners and shareholders.

We are pleased to report another quarter of record results as revenue increased 11% to $957 million versus $861 million a year ago, and up 98% versus 2020, representing one of the highest two-year growth rates in our industry. Gross margin expanded 480 basis points in the first quarter, driven by 390 basis points increase in product margins and our resistance to promote the business as demand trends began to slow.

While there has been a widespread return to discounting across our industry as evidenced by the barrage of sale emails filling our inboxes, and there may be short-term risk of market share loss by choosing not to promote, we believe there is certain long-term risk of brand erosion and model destruction once you begin down that path. It's that discipline and long-term thinking that has enabled us to set new standards for financial performance in the home furnishings industry and our results now reflect those of the leading luxury brands as first quarter adjusted operating margin reached 24.7% versus 22.6% a year ago.

Our results are inclusive of investments related to the opening of RH San Francisco and the RH Guesthouse, the development of RH International and the rollout of RH In-Your-Home, which led to approximately 200 basis points of the 270 basis points of SG&A deleverage in the quarter. We are now forecasting SG&A as a percentage of revenue to peak in the second quarter - second and third quarters as we return to mailing Source Books after a two-year hiatus. By the fourth quarter, we expect SG&A as a percentage of revenue to be in line with last year.

We generated $107 million of free cash flow in Q1, ending the quarter with net debt of $166 million, $2.24 billion of cash on our balance sheet, and trailing 12 months adjusted EBITDA of $1.13 billion. We spent $481 million in cash to repurchase $180 million of our outstanding convertible notes, terminate all of the 3.4 million outstanding warrants and unwind the remaining bond hedges. Following these transactions, we have $101 million of convertible notes outstanding.

Fiscal 2022 outlook. Despite our record financial performance in the first quarter, we have experienced softening demand trends, which began at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and have further slowed during the market disruption over the past several months. Based on our current trends and the uncertain macro environment, we are providing the following revised outlook for the second quarter and fiscal 2022. Second quarter net revenue in the range of minus 1% to minus 3%, versus up 39% last year, with adjusted operating margin in the range of 23% to 23.5% versus 26.6% a year ago. Fiscal 2022 net revenue growth in the range of 0% to 2% versus up 32% last year, with adjusted operating margin in the range of 23% to 24% versus 25.6% a year ago. While we expect the next several quarters to pose a short-term challenge as we cycle the extraordinary growth from the COVID-driven spending shift, shed less valuable market share as we continue to raise our quality and navigate through the multiple macro headwinds, we believe our long-term investments will enable us to continue driving industry-leading performance.

2022: The Year of The New. As we've mentioned, while many of our plans were delayed by the virus, they were not disrupted by it. We believe 2022 will mark the beginning of the next chapter of growth and innovation for the RH brand. 2022: The Year of The New includes: the May opening of RH San Francisco, The Gallery at the historic Bethlehem Steel Building, our most extraordinary new Bespoke Gallery to date. The launch of RH Contemporary, the most compelling and potentially disruptive product introduction in our history. The elevation of RH Interiors and RH Modern, inclusive of new collections and enhanced quality introducing this fall. The unveiling of our first RH Guesthouse in New York, a revolutionary new hospitality concept for travelers seeking privacy and luxury in the $200 billion North American hotel market.

The introduction of an elevated new live-fire restaurant at RH San Francisco, with plans to open in RH England and the New York Guesthouse. The debut of a Champagne and Caviar concept opening in the New York Guesthouse, with plans to expand to our future Galleries in Paris, London, Milan and Aspen. The premier of The World of RH, which launched today, if you haven't been online yet on our website, an incredible visual experience that takes you into the products, places and spaces of our brand. The lift-off of RH1 and RH2, our customized G650 and G550 that will be available for charter later this year. The christening of RH3, our luxury yacht that will be available for charter in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, where the wealthy and affluent visit and vacation. The rollout of RH In-Your-Home, a unique and memorable experience with brand ambassadors guiding every detail of the delivery and extending the selling experience into the home.

The expansion of the RH brand globally, beginning with the opening of RH England, The Gallery at the historic Aynho Park, a magical 17th century, 73-acre estate in the English countryside that will introduce RH to the U.K. in a dramatic and unforgettable fashion. The opening of RH Palo Alto, The Gallery at Stanford Shopping Center, which will represent the next evolution of our highly productive prototype galleries. The Rh Business Vision & Ecosystem, The Long View. We believe there are those with taste and no scale, and those with scale and no taste, and the idea of scaling taste is large and far reaching. Our goal to position RH as the arbiter of taste for the home, has proven to be both disruptive and lucrative, as we continue our quest to build the most admired brand in the world.

Our brand attracts the leading designers, artisans and manufacturers, scaling and rendering their work more valuable across our integrated platform, enabling RH to curate the most compelling collection of luxury home products on the planet. Our efforts to elevate and expand our collection will continue with the introductions of RH Contemporary, RH Couture, RH Bespoke, RH Color, RH Antiques & Artifacts, RH Atelier and other new collections scheduled to launch over the next decade. Our plan to open immersive Design Galleries in every major market will unlock the value of our vast assortment, generating revenues of $5 billion to $6 billion in North America and $20 billion to $25 billion globally. Our strategy is to move the brand beyond curating and selling product to conceptualizing and selling spaces, by building an ecosystem of products, places, services and spaces that establishes the RH brand as a global thought leader, taste and place maker.

Our products are elevated and rendered more valuable by our architecturally inspiring Galleries, which are further elevated and rendered more valuable by our interior design services and seamlessly integrated hospitality experience. Our hospitality efforts will continue to elevate the RH brand, as we extend beyond the four walls of our Galleries into RH Guesthouses, where our goal is to create a new market for travelers seeking privacy and luxury in the $200 billion North American hotel industry.

Additionally, we are creating bespoke experiences like RH Yountville, an integration of Food, Wine, Art & Design in the Napa Valley, RH1 and RH2, our private jets, and RH3, our luxury yacht that is available for charter in the Caribbean and Mediterranean where the wealthy and affluent visit and vacation. These immersive experiences expose new and existing customers to our evolving authority in architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. This leads to our long-term strategy of building the world's first consumer-facing architecture, interior design and landscape architecture services platform inside our Galleries, elevating the RH brand and amplifying our core business by adding new revenue streams while disrupting and redefining multiple industries.

Our strategy comes full circle as we begin to conceptualize and sell spaces, moving beyond the $170 billion home furnishings market into the $1.7 trillion North American housing market with the launch of RH Residences, fully furnished luxury homes, condominiums and apartments with integrated services that deliver taste and time value to discerning time-starved consumers. The entirety of our strategy will come to life digitally as we launch The World of RH, an online portal where customers can explore and be inspired by the depth and dimension of our brand. Our authority as an arbiter of taste will be further amplified when we introduce RH Media, a content platform that will celebrate the most innovative and influential leaders who are shaping the world of architecture and design.

Our plan to expand the RH ecosystem globally multiplies the market opportunity to $7 trillion to $10 trillion, one of the largest and most valuable addressed by any brand in the world today. A 1% share of the global market represents a $70 billion to $100 billion opportunity. Our ecosystem of products, places, services and spaces inspires customers to dream, design, dine, travel and live in a world thoughtfully curated by RH, creating an emotional connection unlike any other brand in the world. Taste can be elusive, and we believe no one is better positioned than RH to create an ecosystem that makes taste inclusive, and by doing so, elevating and rendering our way of life more valuable.

Climbing the luxury mountain and building a brand with no peer. Every luxury brand, from Chanel to Cartier, Aston Martin to Aman, Louis Vuitton to Loro Piana, Harry Winston to Hermes, was born at the top of the luxury mountain. Never before has a brand attempted to make the climb to the top, nor do the other brands want you to. We are not from their neighborhood, nor invited to their parties. We do understand that our work has to be so extraordinary that it creates a forced reconsideration of who we are and what we are capable of, requiring those at the top of the mountain to tip their hat in respect. We also appreciate that this climb is not for the faint of heart. And as we continue our ascent, the air gets thin and the odds become slim.

20 years ago we began this journey with a vision of transforming a nearly bankrupt business with a $20 million market cap and a box of Oxydol laundry detergent on the cover of the catalog into the leading luxury home brand in the world. The lessons and learnings, the passion and persistence, the courage required, and the scar tissue developed by getting knocked down 10 times and getting up 11, leads to the development of the mental and moral strength that builds character in individuals and forms cultures in organizations. Lessons that can't be learned in a classroom, or by managing a business, they must be earned by building one or by reaching the top of the mountain. Onward Team RH. Carpe Diem.

So at this point, operator, we'll open the call to questions.

Question & Answers

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Simeon Gutman from Morgan Stanley. You may begin.

Simeon Gutman - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Hi, everyone. It's Simeon Gutman. Gary, my first question is on promotional environment and the discipline that you spoke to. Can you give us - I guess, I'm a newbie to this. Can you give me maybe a sense sort of the tolerance you'll take in terms of market share loss? Is it steadfast, or will you adapt to the market if you have to, if it continued along a more promotional path? That was my first question.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

I think it depends on how you define if you have to. So, I think we are really well positioned with the best operating model in our industry by far. And we have a really strong balance sheet and lots of optionality to create - capitalize on opportunities in kind of any environment. So, I think the last thing you want to do when you're trying to build a brand like ours and trying to scale, as we say, the luxury mountain. You have to remain disciplined about brand perception, desirability. And you just can't fall into a discounting phase.

Now, if for some cataclysmic reason, the world was ending and we needed to stay liquid, would we make decisions to move inventory and turn into cash? Of course, we would. We're not going to let the company go bankrupt. But the path we're on - the road we're on is a long road, right? It is a very long journey. It's not a short journey. It's not a year-to-year or a quarter-to-quarter journey. It takes decade to get decade journey. And trying to build a brand with no fear, and trying to build something that's truly sustainable in this world.

And there's not a lot of brands that have done that. It's way less than 1% of the retail businesses that ever get introduced. I joke around sometimes, I think a retail mall is like a graveyard for short-lived ideas because most retail brands don't live out the life of their lease. And if you went back 10 years and walk them off, you'd be surprised how much is not there generally. 65% to 70% of a retail shopping center turns over. And there's a handful of businesses that continue on. And that's what we're trying to build here. So, we're prepared to make the decisions for the long run. It served us well thus far. And I believe it'll serve us well in the future.

Simeon Gutman - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Thanks for that. And the follow up. The buyback question, you've been pretty exact, or exacting in terms of your timing in the past. Is there anything you could share on how we should think about using the cash to your advantage?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. We raised the capital tab optionality. And there's a lot of different choices we can make during uncertain times, and there's going to be a lot of - a lot of opportunities to see things in the new life, where they will look much more valuable than they may have looked in the past. So whether that means returning capital to our shareholders through share repurchases to create value, whether it means there's opportune times to do real estate deals and capitalize on what is certain to be, I think, a difficult real estate market over the next year or two, or acquisitions or other forms of accretive decisions that we can make that will create long-term value for our shareholders. So as Warren Buffett says, when others are greedy, be fearful, when others are fearful, be greedy. So, we're trying to prepare ourselves to have the optionality to make decisions that will put the company in a place to benefit long term. So…

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from line of Steven Forbes from Guggenheim. Your line is open.

Steven Forbes - Guggenheim Securities - Analyst

Good afternoon, Gary, Jack. Hey, Gary, I was curious if you could just provide some color around the assumed contributions of RH Contemporary and RH England during the remainder of the year and any thoughts or updated thoughts on the potential year one sales of RH England as we approach the opening?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

That's a good question. Don't even think about Contemporary. While it's clearly the best work we've ever done, and I think the most dramatic evolution of our brand towards where we want to go, whether you're looking at all made in Italy sofas and the highest quality fabrics in the world with the introduction of Holland [Phonetic] and Cherry, The Travertine Collection that you've seen, these are all bespoke collections, bespoke furniture and the designers in our company that have had an early look and the ones that especially got to travel to RH San Francisco to help set up the Galleries, I mean, they've never been more excited. And they believe our consumers going to just love this and we're going to - we're going to also open up an entirely new market. And that's really the feedback we've gotten too from other really high-end interior designers, people we've had through RH San Francisco giving a tour and shown them even the broader collection.

So, we couldn't be more excited about Contemporary. But remember, our business is - to optimize our business, it's really dependent on the goods being seen at retail. There's only so much business you can do in an online business. And it's interesting, over the last, I don't know, it's probably been eight years or 10 years where everybody thought, we were the crazy ones because we were opening retail stores and people have been shrinking stores and closing stores, and we've been building the biggest specialty stores probably in the history of our industry, for sure, in the world and of all industries in retail.

And that has proven very beneficial and very accretive to our business growth and to our operating model. As people are finding out, it's probably the lowest cost of customer acquisition in any form you can take. And that's why we see less opening retail stores. So getting Contemporary into retail will be critical to understand the potential of Contemporary. We'll get early reads. We obviously have all the math and we can extrapolate out something, that is what is presented online and in our Source Books. And translating that into what it'll be worth. And so we actually like launching goods in our Source Book and online because we then do a much better job of projecting inventory and placing bets. But this is one we'll move pretty quickly. We've already got inventory kind of on order. And of course, that's been difficult over the last several months, but we've had inventory on order to get the goods into it. Right now, they're in our San Francisco, but to get the goods into New York, into, what, Chicago, Westfarms, some of our biggest, most important galleries and markets. Because a lot of times our customers will travel regionally, right? They'll be working with a designer in Greenwich, Connecticut, or in New Jersey, or somewhere, places where he might have a legacy store. And they'll plan day trips and take consumers to see the goods in person.

So getting the goods out there regionally is key. We're getting the goods into all the Galleries, I think is going to be transformational. So, you first have to kind of stand back and say, what's the bigger picture? And especially as it relates to where's our demand versus others, how are we performing, so on and so forth, what is the external market look like? You have to remember that we made some critical choices at the beginning of COVID. And we believe COVID was going to be temporal. I had people tell me, oh, the decade of home. It's going to be - it's going to be always like this. And I said, look, I've been in this industry a long time, nothing's always like anything. Everything's always changing. And our view is the COVID lifts was going to probably last a year and it got extended by another year because of all the variants. And we were in and out of offices, doors were opening and closing, restaurants were closed, and then there was 25% and 50% Occupancy. We've had a very chaotic couple of years.

And what we did, it was very different, I think, than many other people. We decided not to try to optimize - for the period of COVID, we decided not to chase revenues and chase demand during that period. We said, look, there's already more demand than we could - than we could fulfill. Why don't we use this time in a much more strategic way, and focus on moving some really big rocks that'll set up the next decade of growth at our age. And that's what we did. We focused all our energy on kind of taking Contemporary to another level. We actually did mail Source Book over the last two years, but had no newness over the last few years. Now think about that. Basically, no marketing and no newness, yet we outperformed everybody in our sector, right? We had 42% two-year growth over COVID. Besides Wayfair, that is not exactly a similar business model, right, Wayfair was selling all kinds of things that were related to the pandemic, all kinds of categories.

They were greatly benefited, no different than an Etsy or people. If you're selling masks, you are selling a lot of things that people needed during a pandemic, you're going to probably outperformed. But if you look at the home furnishings retailers, any of those brands, we outperformed anybody with no newness and no books. So what did that mean? It meant we probably left demand on the table, because if we would have had newness during that period, we would have had in from, what, incremental demand. We wouldn't have incremental revenue, but we might have built up a bigger backlog. I would assume that.

But what we did instead, is we took Contemporary to a place we couldn't even imagine. We rearchitected the way we did product internally. We rearchitected parts of our center of innovation to work and collaborate a new way to integrate the product in a new way. And I think we created. I would say, RH Contemporary is like, almost a new company within the company. If you look at the assortment, if you go online, and you page through the Source Book, and you tell me, okay, think of all the home brands that might have launched in the last five years or 10 years. All these - there's all kinds of ones that started online. They have a catalog. They might have a couple of stores, and you take a look at that assortment, and you compare it with contemporary, which, by the way, is only 70% of the collection because the vendors just - we didn't want to put things in the book and online that weren't going to be shipped for six months because the supply chain is still somewhat backed up.

But we believe Contemporary is like almost a new company within the company. We think it's going to be bigger than Modern. Modern today is roughly $1 billion business, right? So, you think about that. We introduced Modern at the end of 2015. And if you really attribute all the correct sales to Modern, right, when you take parts of our textiles assortment, our rug assortment and things like that, not just the furniture and the lighting and even some of the lighting. Modern really moved the business massively and kind of changed the game for RH and opened up the aperture - the aperture of the market for us. Consumer saw us entirely different. I think Contemporary will have a bigger impact on his company than Modern. And I think it - and not just from a design point of view, but from a quality point of view. Now people have taken digs on us over the years because they believe product made in China is not as good as product made in America, which is not true, by the way.

The iPhones made in China. It's the best piece of technology in the world. A lot of great things are made in China. They're very industrious and hard working people. But you can make a lot of cheap shit there, if you want to. Excuse my language. But that's not what we do. And our people will think that because it's made in Vietnam, some of the best furniture manufacturers and artisans in the world out of the U.K. and Europe went to Vietnam years ago to make super high-end furniture. Is there cheap furniture made in Vietnam? Sure, there is. There's also cheap furniture made in the United States, by the way. And there's cheap things made everywhere.

The key is to know where to go and where to make high-quality things. But when all of a sudden you take a category, like we have with upholstery, and say, hey, we're going to make it all in Italy. The Italians have a sense of design and detail that is probably better than anyone else in the world. It's the home of da Vinci and Michelangelo and so many people that have done some of the most extraordinary architectural work, artwork in the world, design in the world, so on and so forth. So, I think that communicates something entirely new. [Indecipherable] I think it's part of a fourth swipe [Phonetic] or the source flip and it says, Made in Italy and you've got two families, two companies, Italian families, generations of making the highest quality products, sitting on our sofas with an article about them. I think it communicates something new.

When you swipe a little farther and you get to the spread, the mark - the kind of the - the article on calling [Phonetic] and sharing and it says that the noble fibers of Saville Row. When you see - you see that fabric on a suit form is being made where the highest quality suits are in the world. This is arguably the best fabric house in the world. It is the favorite fabric house and fabrics from the highest end of interior design, the very best designers. I think a lot of - lot of people's eyes are going to go wide open when they swipe through either online or in our Source Book and see that we're carrying Holland & Sherry fabrics, no different than what was probably 10 years ago now, when we started showing Perennials, right? And we changed. And what's interesting what happened to Perennials [Technical Issues], it actually grew. And we became a massive part of that business.

So, I think the same thing can happen with Holland & Sherry. But Contemporary sets a whole new standard. Now what - now, how does it roll out into demand? They'll only be so much demand we can do online and in our Source Books. Although I would tell you, I've never seen our designers and our teams and our Galleries such huge advocates of anything done. So, we've got an incredible - we don't have a marketing department in the company. We have a truth group. So, we got an incredible roots of truth advocates that are going to talk about our work, right, and what we're doing. And so I think we'll get a pretty good response. But the goods also have to kind of keep trickling in. And there is still - it's going to take a month or two for all the goods to be in stock. But our business generally ramps in the course of a few months. By month three, you start to really understand the trends because consumers are working on projects, not just buying products.

And then by fall, we think we will be in a position to start to roll it out. September, we should think about, yeah - so probably September. We're not only going to roll out Contemporary to the company and it will probably become, I say, the first third of every Gallery. So whether it's a legacy Gallery that's 6,000 square feet, the first 2,000 square feet or more will be Contemporary. It's a new design gallery for the entire first floor, I'd say, for the Contemporary. That's how confident we are in its product line.

And by Q3, you're really going to understand the demand. The other thing we're going to do is you remember, it was a 2010, 2011, when we remodeled all the stores, we've done it several times. But if you remember when all our Galleries went to break, right? We ripped out all the old white pictures on the wall. We got rid of the silver sage and white paint. We painted the floors, and we made everything look new again. Well, you're going to see us evolve in a very dramatic way, in even our legacy Galleries. I mean, it's going to look like an entirely new company in Q3. And even some of our newest Galleries are going to transform pretty, pretty dramatically. Even New York right now where one has been repainted. [Speech Overlap]

By end of June, you'll see Contemporary on the first floor of New York. I think we've already painted the first floor in New York. We kind of have a little strategy inside the company to kind of get the gray out, but not entirely get the gray out. But you don't see a lot of grays in Contemporary, right? So, this is kind of like to me 2009, 2010, 2011, when we really transformed the entire company and the entire business. It is like one of those massively transformational times. So, you're just going to see the brand. Not evolved, but it'll be kind of a huge evolution, revolution by the second half of the year. And so I'd say, Q3, you'll really understand the demand. Q4, Contemporary will start to impact our revenues. Now because as we ramp and when we're shipping, it'll be small as well. It'll start to impact Q4. And by next year, Contemporary will be a force in our industry, not just in RH, in our industry, a transformational force.

And then turning to RH England. And I won't be as long. But it is our first. And you telling, we might be a little excited about Contemporary. But RH England, I think about it as way more than a Gallery, right? It's really opening a country and in many ways, the continent. And I think the way we're opening in this truly inspiring magical way. I mean, no one ever opened a retail store in a 17th century, 73-acre estate in the English countryside. And while some people will say, well, gosh, how do you know it'll work? I don't know. We have a pretty good history with these things that have never been done before. So if anybody's on the West Coast goes to the RH San Francisco, because nobody thought we should have done that one either out in the - in the part of San Francisco, nobody ever ventured into. And I think we began the transformation of the entire waterfront. And we signed that lease before Shea Stadium was ever - anybody knew was going to be built. We just knew that - we thought we could redefine that part of San Francisco, do something extraordinary. And that people would come.

And I'd say, RH San Francisco today is the most extraordinary Gallery we have in the company, most inspiring women. And yes, an incredible new hospitality concept, our new live-fire restaurant. We love it. I mean, like - and so far, I think, the reviews on it, we have 4.5, 4.8 on Yelp and other things. It's a whole new level for the brand from a hospitality point of view. And the new wine bars, so on and so forth. But England is like nothing the world's ever seen. And it's a multi-dimensional experience. We have three full hospitality concepts, two minor hospitality experiences on the property. Of the three major ones, two will open when we open the third restaurant. It's going to take a little longer.

When you're dealing with this building, yeah, because it's built in 1615. And so it's an important building. It deemed a grade one heritage building in England. And just to put it in perspective, Buckingham Palace is a grade one listed building. So when you try to do anything in a grade one listed building, you almost need the Queen to sign off on it. So - yeah, so it's been going a little slower than normal and also, because there was COVID and nobody was working, or everybody wanted to do things on Zoom. And by the way, the companies that want to run their business on Zoom in the future, good luck with that. Thank God, Elon Musk sent that note out, like, yeah, you're just going to phone it in. Anybody who thinks the world worked better over the last two years, those are people that just don't want to work. Those are the kinds of people that you're paying to breath [Phonetic] in your company.

So, we're excited that the world's going to get back. It is going to help us get things done. But RH England, when we open it, I think it's going to create a huge conversation. What will the demand be, like, right away? I don't know. We were excited about it and the things we tend to get excited about other people get excited about. We know a lot of people in England and in London are talking about it. We think now we just got the approvals for the last things we wanted to do. We think we'll get it kind of wrapped up now kind of late August. And then we need about two weeks to three weeks. We've got three weeks to kind of set a Gallery like that, maybe a little longer because of the two hospitality concepts. But yeah, we'll have a full restaurant. The Lounge will open. The luxe [Phonetic] will open, which is a more casual. We have a third restaurant that will open, I think will open next spring, probably will open it in the winter, but probably not a good time to open out there. But it'll be like, unlike anything else in the world. And I think we'll get a lot of excitement.

We'll get some demand. But hard to promise anything at this point. But yeah, it could be a wide range. So it's hard to say what will year one's sales of RH England be. I wish we could - we were better at guessing and things like that. That one's - it's just a hard one for us. So, yeah, we'll see how it goes. We like to stay inside our company. Every plan we have is some degree around. But the question is, are we strategically right? Are we directionally right? And if we're directionally right and strategically right, we kind of get going and we move pretty quickly. And then we get feedback. We get real feedback and real data, and then we kind of improvise, adapt, overcome, adjust and try to make things extraordinary. So, yeah - but we're excited about it. I think it's going to be the coolest store that's ever opened in the world. And that's hard to say after you just opened RH San Francisco.

Steven Forbes - Guggenheim Securities - Analyst

Thank you, Gary.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Steven Zaccone from Citi. Your line is open.

Steven Zaccone - Citigroup - Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking my question. And I appreciate the shout out for the Italian lineage on the call. So, I wanted to ask about the guidance change for the year. So could you just comment a bit more on maybe the softening of demand? You've seen that as of late, you gave such great color, the last time you reported. So what are you really seeing in the business to guide 2Q revenue be flattish, and then take the second half of the year down? And I guess I'm curious, how much of it is a reduction in demand versus maybe a delay in some of these new initiatives?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. I don't know how much more color I have. I mean, the demand slowed at the beginning of the word, softened further the next couple of months. And most of the narrative, I think, is out there. I think we're guiding it as we see it today. How does this all unfold? I don't think anybody really knows right now. It's the first time anybody's seen inflation like this in 42 years, right? So, I don't know I guess. How many people? How many people on this call were adults 42 years ago? Not a lot, right? Not adults that have a lot of wisdom. Yeah, so - at least what I like to say. So the people that really had wisdom 42 years ago are 80, 90 or 100 years old. So, there is not a lot of those people still highly active in decision making roles. I guess, like we have a President that at least he might have been old enough to kind of know what's going on. But it doesn't seem like they know what to do.

Janet Yellen finally did come out and say I was wrong. I mean, everybody's giving her all this credit for the mea culpa. Like what took so long? I think like, how clear did it have to be to kind of admit you were wrong, right? Like, how long ago did inflation go from 2% to 4%, 4% to 7.4%, and then 8.5%? And you have to ask yourself, like, where is inflation really today? I've had a chance to interact at a dinner down in side with some really interesting, small group of people from mostly North America, but also someone who runs one of the biggest companies in the world, that of China and one of the biggest venture capitalists, cryptocurrency experts, so on and so forth. And we all get to ask several questions at the end of the night. Before we were wrapping up, I asked, okay, no one's getting out of here without saying, what's going on right now? What do you think is happening? What's going out with economy? And my sense is - and it was the same way, I was lucky enough to attend the Wndr [Phonetic] Conference that Jeffrey Katzenberg put on not too long ago that had 150 people from around the world that - I think a lot of people don't know exactly where we're at.

I think that, if you look at what's happened and say, we've got really high inflation, is it going to come down? Is it done? If you ask me to tell you what the consensus is of the people, I talked to business leaders and people who run big portfolios of businesses and so on and so forth, whether venture capitalists or not. They say inflation is running much higher than the stated numbers. And we would concur with that. We know that the Fed has to raise interest rates. We know when interest rates rise, it usually leads to a recession. It surely is not good for the housing market. Anybody thinks that rising interest rates is a good thing for the housing market hasn't been alive long enough. And so you've got rising interest rates, you have the government now starting - they've been doing quantitative easing and they're going to tighten. That's not good for the debt markets. The cost of money is just going to go way up everywhere, right? So - and there's a lot of things about - did we have multiple contractions and are we in somewhat of an earnings recession based off the highs where does it go from here. So, none of us know, none of us have a crystal ball.

We can just look at the best data that we can get our hands on and try to make them the best predictions and forecasts that we can. But it's a time to remain highly, I believe highly flexible. And it's like, we'd like to say inside the company pray for peace but plan for war and how do you - how do you prepare yourself for almost anything and everything that could happen in a market like this. And part of our strategy was too raise capital, be prepared, have our balance sheet prepared. We want to be able to protect the business model. We want to be able to capitalize in an environment that might get volatile.

Look, all of sudden for some reason miraculously they figure out how to fix inflation without raising interest rates too high and there are some magic bullets in the economy, the change things. So, we paid a little bit of interest expense. All the term loan debt that we have is repayable. So, we don't spend the money. We haven't spent any money yet. We've got the money, we're paying for optionality, right now. So, we think our guidance is our best view of the future today, but it's a very uncertain future today, very uncertain future. And I'd say doubly [Phonetic] uncertain for anybody in the home business because we're on the other side of COVID, we're up against big numbers like everybody else. You've got rising interest rates, you've got - you're coming off a super hot kind of couple years in home prices and home sales and even though there is low inventory, it doesn't matter if there is low inventory, if you have low demand.

So, a lot of people moved over the last few years. I don't think that there is going to be anywhere near the amount of movement in America than there was –we went through a historic amount of movement, especially the migration from cities to suburbs, which - it was very good for our business and our industry. Right? Yet people may be moving from 1,500 square foot apartment to 3,000 square foot home, 4,000 square foot home, needs a lot more furniture. Are they moving back? I mean they might be. Are they going to buy new furniture again? I don't know. I mean - but I don't think a lot of people are necessarily moving back. I don't think there is a whole lot of people moving. I know there's been people who have cited reports that we're on Google and stuff, that's a LendingTree report, that was from January 11, by the way, not very fresh data.

If you want to put your confidence in reports from January 11 that are posted on Google by LendingTree, good luck. I don't think there is going to be a lot of movement and I don't think there's going to be as much activity. So, what you have to do in an market like that. You have to be really fresh and new and that's what we are. I mean we are going to be the most exciting thing in maybe the most uncertain market that we've seen in 10 or 15 years. So, I like how we're positioned no matter what happens. So, I'm - I hate to say I'm indifferent, but at a big picture level, I'm indifferent. Our long-term strategy is unbelievable. What we're going to do over the next several years is the world has never seen before. And we're doing it with the best model in our industry by roughly 50%.

So, for people that have a long-term view, it's not a better place to park your money. For people that are jittery around the short-term, like I don't know, I - don't invest in our sector. There is a lot to pick - it's - again, it's going to be very uncertain I think for at least throughout this year, at least until the government figures out what to do with inflation and how high do interest rates have to go. If you look back in the '70s and '80s, I remember buying - my team would crack up if I'm going to say this, I remember buying a waterbed when I was - when I was in college and I was paying - I bought $145 waterbed and I was paying 26% interest, right. Credit cards had like 48% or 32% interest. I think by the time I paid off that waterbed it was like $1,000, right, years later. So, our interest rates, if the federal funds rate is going to go back to 20%, I don't think so. Is it going to stay under 4% or 5%, I don't think so. So, I think we've got a long ways to go in raising interest rates to fight inflation and I think you just have to be prepared for anything right now.

Steven Zaccone - Citigroup - Analyst

Great, thanks for all the detail.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from Chuck Grom from Gordon Haskett. Your line is open.

Chuck Grom - Gordon Haskett Research Advisors - Analyst

Hey, thanks very much. One for Jack on the guide. You gave some of the important building block sales from some SG&A color by quarter which is helpful. But it doesn't, it doesn't seem like you're anticipating much gross margin degradation throughout the year? Obviously, 1Q was great. Curious what gives you that comfort level given that the recent change in demand and current inventory levels?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Everything I just said. We have incredible new product coming in that I think transform our market. I think we're going to be the most exciting game in town. And I think that it's a really good time to have a membership model like we have right now. So, we have a model that allows people to get a really great value, get a discount if they become a member of RH. And I think that's a competitive advantage right now and so there is - Jack, if you want to –?

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

Chuck, I don't know if you're asking again, we've addressed the promotional point. That clearly is a risk factor for anyone that gets into the promotional game. So, I think Gary has addressed that fully. And then it's a question of what else, what else could be happening to gross margin, whether it's shipping expense or occupancy cost or any of those other pieces. Could there be - just on the guide, could there be some modest occupancy until that deleverage maybe. But it's –you just have the - what the moves we've made with the product margin and we have visibility into those persisting in wrapping those. So, I think it's just a function of the model we've built.

Chuck Grom - Gordon Haskett Research Advisors - Analyst

Okay, great. Just wanted to clarify. And then just looking back on the first quarter, you exceeded your plan by a pretty wide margin, up 11%. The plan, I think was 7% to 8%. I'm curious how much of that was fulfilling backlogs and versus current demand trends throughout the quarter? And how do we think about backlog levels currently and over the next couple of quarters? Thanks.

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, I think there is certainly some of the backlog relief that occurred in Q1 backlog [Speech Overlap] that helped us. When you think about that $200 million in backlog, again, is it 20 to 30, you got - got addressed in Q1 and we still have a big amount of that left. But certainly, I think part of bid as Gary just mentioned, the biggest part of the bid is related to the backlog. So, but still more to come on that.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, but it wasn't demand, it was an increase in demand that helped us, Chuck. It was things shipped faster.

Operator

Thank you. And our next question will come from the line of Curtis Nagle from Bank of America. Your line is open.

Curtis Nagle - Bank of America - Analyst

Great. Thanks very much for taking the question. So, I guess as much as you kind of parse out, just thinking about the pullback you've seen. We don't need to get any of numbers or anything like that, but just kind of curious, I guess, how broad-based it's been across your customer base, by demographics, by income levels? Anything in terms of regional differences? Just kind of curious how has that parsed out or just how broad-based it is in terms of the change in the demand you've seen?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, I mean there is some, there is some small regional differences. You've got [Indecipherable] and so…

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

But Curtis, this is not a business where we have the winter coats and weather is off somewhere. Again, there's regional differences that's always occurring and it's not, it's not somehow, there might be differences but it doesn't necessarily manage or lead your business in a different way.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, like the people in Texas and places like that are going to be really happy right now, the price of oil is pretty good. You're going to, you're going to have some, some tailwinds, they're helping some businesses in Florida. Obviously, because all the migration in Texas, and still have a lot of people settling in, and I think that those markets will be better and they're affected by oil. Oil really affects South America and South America affects our Florida business massively and also positively effects our business in Texas. Canada will be be benefited from higher oil prices.

So, there's always going to be some movement demographically. I think, the high-end, like people, they are going to, we've had people reach out to us, say, oh, well luxury is doing really well, like aren't you luxury, like, don't confuse the apparel industry with the home industry. I mean it's, they are completely different, they're completely different. I mean how many people bought new clothes over the last few years when you weren't going anywhere. Anybody buy, anybody go to a wedding the last couple of years. Anybody go to any events the last couple of years, have dinner parties, no.

Like we had a pass on many store opening events. We finally opened an event in San Francisco. Came off [Indecipherable], apparel sales should rip. Stores were closed, every standard home, I mean people were buying lululemon and stuff like that, that was like the national wardrobe at the high end. But now of course, the luxury brands are going to do well. I mean, yeah, they might have issues and shutdowns in China and things like that, but travel is going to rip, luxury hotels are going to do really well, luxury apparel is going to do really well, luxury home, home is a completely different industry. So, like it's, yes, they kind of look at it very specific way to understand it, but I'm surprised how many people think what well, gosh, Hermes and Louis Vuitton and carrying have really good numbers right now. Why are your soft. I don't know, sometimes I just want to hang up the phone, it's such a bad question.

So, I mean things are what they are. Like this is - the data that's in the market. It's really, it's not really good for our industry right now. And, yeah, yeah, I do, maybe it's our demand going to look softer than others over a period of time. Yeah, yeah, I mean, again, we introduced no new products for two years. In the first quarter that became three years of no new product until now Contemporary launch. So, yeah, maybe where we're giving up some share because we've had no newness. I know we're giving up some share because we're not promoting and it's, it's evident, people will say, oh, we're not going back to site wide promotions. Oh, okay. You know got it. But you still sent me 34 sale e-mails last month, sometimes multiple a day.

So, so the - like, I think you can see who is going to promote, who is not going promote based on the gross margin line. It's - I've never seen a long-term strategy that works very well where you are trying to promote your business and then you might be able cover the incremental cost with the extra volume, you can't do that forever. It usually becomes a downward spiral, nobody's quoted themselves to greatness except for discounters. But if you're trying to build a great long-term brands, there's decisions, great long-term high-end brands, let alone luxury brands, again, we're in a path no one's ever tried to take, no one's tried to find this mountain before.

So, our strategies are going to be all different than everybody else. We're going to make decisions that are different than everybody else. I don't really care if we were softer than everybody else in Q1 and part of Q2, I got it. I had three new - three years of no new - no newness. Newness per year generally, like 5 points to our business may be more. So, you can argue, well, in the first quarter over if you compound it, it's 15 points to 20 points, right. So, we haven't had any newness in three years. That changes right now.

Curtis Nagle - Bank of America - Analyst

Understood and thanks for the extrapolation on that's. Just a really quick one for you, Gary. I just want to make sure I got the timeline rate in terms of the, I know, ARC [Phonetic] opening, it sounds like that's going to be fall? I wasn't quite sure when you're expecting that. Is that correct?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. Our construction team based on the fact that we just last week got our final approvals like, I mean it's - been unbelievable trying to get simple approvals. But then again, its 16th century Grade 1 heritage building out in the English country side. Not a lot of people didn't want to make a site visit. [Indecipherable]. So, I have empathy for team. I feel bad because I've been on them pretty fast and I'm like okay, I got it. Like I understand what they're dealing with. So, it looks like we'll be done with the project late August and will need about three weeks to put it all together. So, I'd say early mid-September, we'll probably, Stefan is here and he is not in his head. I don't, I don't necessarily trust that either, but I think what we should, will definitely be open in September, I think sometime in September.

Curtis Nagle - Bank of America - Analyst

Do you know what time it will be there in England, so hopefully, the timing works out in terms of weather? September is greater time in terms of weather in England. So hopefully, that lines for you and good luck.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Rain or shine, we're opening. It's been too long. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question will come from the line of Max Rakhlenko from Cowen. Your line is open.

Max Rakhlenko - Cowen - Analyst

Great, thanks a lot guys. So, as you continue to climb the luxury mountain, I guess how do you think about who your core shopper is today? Whether it's household income or net worth? Just because it does seem like your shopper may be evolving in real time here, especially once you get going with contemporary? So, that's the first one.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

We don't think about them any differently than we've been thinking about them. As we climb the luxury mountain, I'd say, I I'll tell everyone, tell everyone, maybe I haven't said this publicly in a call. We are both a shared giver right now and we are a shared taker if you think about our clients. Right? So, as we climb the mountain, we are kind of giving share to people below us, because we're moving this brand up. So, we're constantly raising the level of quality, raising the level of design and building a more desirable luxury product and experience. So, and by the way, that's no different than the last 20 years. Right?

So, we've been a share giver. Like when I got here 22 years ago, the best-selling sofa was $999 Chenille sofa. I forgot what is called was that green ugly Chenille sofa, best-selling one in the company. So we don't, we don't have a Chenille sofa or again any sofa, just $999 anymore. Right? But again, it's - so, we're constantly giving share, leaving share behind and what we're doing is we're taking share at the higher end of the market. And the key is the arbitrage a positive arbitrage, right. A lot of times it is, sometimes you might be a little wrong. Sometimes, you may not take as much share as you gave up, but you have to be committed to decline right. It's like trying to climb Everest, you might get to a spot where you get stock, right.

The weather is not good, you made a bad decision, you went to a part and you slip down a bit and you went down your rope and you got to kind of going go back up. It's it's not, it's not a stroll in the park trying to do what we're doing, this is not a stroll in the park. This is a climb up the mountain that nobody has made before. Nobody has taken his business like ours that what we are selling. I mean I think that's the number one item in the company when I joined with a little cardboard, piece of cardboard for $2 and it was called out Auto Bingo, okay. One of the next best-selling items with the back scratcher, okay. The item after that was a foot duvet. If you remember, the foot duvets, we used to have mountains on them, right. We had to sell them back then had to sell them back then because they had to not go bankrupt. Like we can go on and on. You want a pocket hand warmer, you got to go somewhere else. We don't sell them anymore, go on and on and on. High demand dog toys, so on and so forth. So, we'll be speaking the same way about some of the goods we sell today.

I'd say a third to half of our assortment won't be here in the next three to five years and probably the bottom third of the assortment will evolve, excuse me, will evolve over the next 24 months, I'd say 24, 36 months. So, all of that and say, well, what happens. Do all the customers that could afford that level of quality and design. Can they all afford the next level of quality and design, of course, not, of course not. But we're taking share at the high end and the people at the high end spend exponentially more in the home. They have multiple homes, they spend more in the furnishings for those homes. And it's a completely different market.

So, the way to think about our market, if you thought about a pyramid like people usually look at a pyramid to say a market and okay, the 1% is up here and this and that, there is not not as many people there, there is more people down here in the middle. But the way to think about the spending is you have to kind of turn that pyramid upside down and lay it over the typical pyramid. So, if you look at it, the top 1%, the top 0.5%, the higher up you go, the spending is exponential on the home. So, that line it's the widest is, that's the very top. So, we're going to go to the top and how much is left behind we'll figure it out as we go, we'll figure out how to optimize it. But it worked for other luxury brands in other categories. It just hasn't been done in our category, right. I mean there's people have, you can argue, being the Italia's luxury sofas, they don't really sell anything else, they have a couple of lights things, like that.

There is no real dominant global luxury brands doing what we're doing and no one has started where we started and tried to get there. It's kind of unseen before. So, but then again, we like to say leaders have to make uncomfortable. That's what we do. So, we're going to make you guys uncomfortable, we're going to make ourselves uncomfortable, we're going to make some of our customers uncomfortable unfortunately, yeah. But we're going to excite a lot of people and we're going to - we're going to create a lot of extraordinary things and we believe we're going to create extraordinary value.

Max Rakhlenko - Cowen - Analyst

Got it. That's very helpful. And then, Gary, I think previously when you were talking about the conversion of a legacy gallery into a design gallery, I think you used to say that within like a 12- to 18-month horizon, the store revenues double and then e-com sees a little bit of a lift as well. So just curious, is that still the framework that we should think about or think about it, I don't know six months or a year ago, you said that the restaurants are going to do better? So, just curious how we should think about the long-term growth algorithm as far as the store openings go?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, I'd say directionally, it's about the same. The base gets bigger, so the double gets harder, right, when you're on a higher volume. If you think about it, when we - when we started this journey, our average - our average store volume in the company I think was 2.1 million and in our, in our old galleries and like for instance in, let's just take Marin, some of you have been here at center of innovation, you've seen Marin, our legacy Marine gallery, when I got here was 2.5 million. When we closed it, it was what 18, 20 somewhere around there. Doing - it was doing about 20 million.

So, if you think - when we started doing these big stores, our average volumes were probably 10, 8 to 10. Then they went to 12, like maybe 8, our average legacy gallery is today is probably 15. And so the base has gotten bigger, so that the double gets harder. Actually when we started, our average volume was 7, that's right. But we have in our average legacy galleries, we have an average volume of 15. In fact, everywhere we open a new gallery, especially now that we have the restaurants and and the incremental traffic it brings with those and so forth, we are, we're doubling. So, if we have a $15 million gallery, it's generally turns into a $30 million dollar gallery, $20 million gallery turns into it $40 million roughly. So - and like Marin, I think is what we, like trailing 12 was like, $10 million to $50 million something like that. So, Marin went from $20 million to $50 million with the restaurant, yeah, I'm talking all inclusive, yeah.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jonathan Matuszewski from Jefferies. Your line is open.

Jonathan Matuszewski - Jefferies - Analyst

Great, thanks for taking my question. First one, Gary, you've mentioned in the past RH Modern price points at launch were significantly above the levels of existing assortments at the time. We can flip through Source Book page by page. But can you help frame aggregate RH Contemporary pricing relative to some of your other assortments today? Thanks so much.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Sure, sure. Yeah. When we launched Modern, it was on average 50% higher price points than Interiors and Contemporary was about 30% to 35% higher than the current assortment. Yeah, some things might be 50% higher, some things might be 20% higher. On an average we're about 35% higher.

Jonathan Matuszewski - Jefferies - Analyst

That's helpful. And then just a quick follow-up, on the last call, you indicated the Palo Alto gallery, may get pushed to 1Q of next year. Is that looking more likely these days? Is that kind of taking out of the new and your guide for revenue or just any clarification there?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, we haven't, we still believe it will be open in the fourth quarter, but we are using that to kind of evolve the prototype, right. So, we're - it's going to have a new look and new feel and there is some new things that we're doing there. So, it means that it opens a quarter later, it might, but today, we feel pretty good about Q4, but we'll keep you updated.

Jonathan Matuszewski - Jefferies - Analyst

Thanks so much. Best of luck.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Brad Thomas from KeyBanc Capital. Your line is open.

Brad Thomas - KeyBanc Capital - Analyst

Hi, good afternoon and thanks for taking my question. I was hoping to just talk a little more about Source Books and just advertising and promotions in general and Gary, I know that you all don't do marketing or advertising in a traditional way, but I guess I was just curious your thinking as you get the Source Books out, how you're thinking about page count and doing big books like you always do versus maybe be supplementing with some smaller books, particularly with the new Contemporary product coming out? And then perhaps if you're considering doing more with digital advertising again with the new Contemporary in line and with the World of RH website overhaul? Thanks.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

We're considering all of the above. So, everything you're talking about. So, as we start to ramp back up, whether it's the size of the book, the depth of the mailing, I would say we were so excited about Contemporary, we expanded the mailing more aggressively. When it relates to size of books, generally just directionally, when you add more pages to a book, your cost leverages a lot. It's a lot less for incremental pages and generally larger books are more productive than smaller books. You're throwing out a wider net. So, until that math says differently, we'd like to be in the range of 300 to 500 pages. I mean, some of our books have got to 700 pages. They become a little difficult get into all the mailboxes and stuff. But the number is still kind of tell us what to do there, right.

We got to pay for a lot of data. But it's clear, as the world keeps evolving and we get better devices and we have more mobility with devices, prints will become less and less important over time and things will evolve to be come more digitally intuitive. That's why when you look at the World of RH website, like the first part of the launch is just kind of what I, it's that first layer right of what you see and how you - how you might explore our brand and what our brand is all about in what is it, mid-July we launch, part two of the World of RH. So, mid-to-end of July, the next transformative part, the whole back-end changes and so all the product pages, the way you shop, the way you - the functionality and customer experience changes massively. I think together, when you see these two parts of the World of RH all come together, it's transformative. It's like no other website in the world.

And so right now, you're just seeing kind of for better word, marketing layer of the brand, and just before you go to our brand and you might just see a light fixture on the front page, and you think like, oh, they a lighting company or who knows what you see. It's like - when you got to the web and companies are still promotional and it says warehouse sale or betting sale, you think that's all they sell, because remember the web, if this spring, as you see, you can't see beyond the screen. So, it's very different when you have a three-dimensional store. You can see the size of the store. You can tell this store is bigger, much more than another store, you can walk in store in seconds and minutes. You can figure out what they do and what they sell.

Website is very different. Like, I think it was so important for us to get this first part of the World of RH done before we launch internationally, right, because we didn't want people who just like like who are they, go on our website. And you see some product page on the front whatever we're showing, a lighting collection, a sofa collection whatnot. Now, you get a sense for a much bigger idea, a much bigger kind of business, a much bigger kind of brand, you know that and if you've looked on again, if you've clicked on it, it goes through, the dream, design travel, time and experience, the World of RH and then you see the products, places, services and spaces that you click through any of those, click through our spaces, but places, click through our products, click through our services, you get a sense of, really what we do very quickly and who we are very quickly.

But the engine of this website site changes and the customer experience changes as you get into it massively mid to end of July. So, and I think that's going to - it's going to make a big, big difference just as customers discover us what they get to know. But you'll see, we're experimenting with some digital advertising, we're experimenting with some places we think. As the world keeps changing, we're watching consumer behavior, we're looking at where we might invest, we're always trying things. So, you'll see us continue to kind of evolve or approach of getting what we say getting our truth out there, getting our work out into the world so the right people to see it.

So, am I going to do Twitter account, everybody tells me that I got to tweet, I'll have to a lot of followers. I don't want to do that. I don't want to have kind of respond everybody. I don't know how Elon Musk keeps up with it for God sake. The guys is incredible. He must - I think I don't sleep a lot. I think he might never fleet. It's truly, truly incredible. But we believe even though as we said this before, even though we don't have an Instagram account and we don't have a Pinterest account and a Twitter account, we're still the most pin brand of our time in the world and Instagram kind of brand of the world and tweeted brand of our kind of the world.

And we are, because we do really incredible work and we build really incredible experiences on this planet for people to go to and experience talk about, see and while we don't sit there and say, oh, let's create an Instagram space, let's like - this will be great for Instagram, we just do incredible design and architecture and the world is not fully that. They don't build things like they used to anymore. And there's not a lot of great buildings. There's not like lot of really extraordinary design that's open to the public and we are. And therefore, people are excited to take their picture there. They're excited to tweet about it, to Instagram about it. They are excited about our product. I wouldn't be surprised if the reaction on Pinterest, you know, the number of pins we're going to get in Contemporary is going to probably go like wildfire. There's really nothing like it.

Brad Thomas - KeyBanc Capital - Analyst

Very helpful. Thanks, Gary.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Brad.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Seth Basham from Wedbush. Your line is open.

Seth Basham - Wedbush - Analyst

Thanks a lot, and good afternoon. Gary, if you're successful in plumbing the luxury announced and your business in your customer profile, will be a lot different in five years than is today. But if the arbitrage between taking share at the highest end and shedding share below you is increasingly negative for the next 12 months even as you elevate your assortment and continue to raise prices. What's the contingency plan? What's the plan B?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

I don't, I don't know if that's not going to happen. For 12 months, again, we're not making 12 months decisions, it's not a 12-month strategy. So - I think we had learned a lot. We'll adjust and so on and so forth, but there is going to be years we take more, and years that maybe we take less. And so if you look back at the transformations we've made over the course of our history here, sometimes there are some short-term pain for long-term gain. You don't know exactly what that looks like until you get there but you get there and you work through it, you don't go backwards.

You don't start going down the mountain when your goal is to go up the mountain. Figure out how to get there. And otherwise you never get there. So, as we discuss in this company, it's not what we say, it's what we do that defines us. So, we will get to the top of the mountain. Believe me, we will get there. We know we can see what it looks like, we have enough data. There is enough evidence to say if we get there, we will create enormous value and this will be a very, very large company over the next 12 months. I don't like, it cost us 5 points, or 10 points, I'm not selling my stock. So, there is a plan A.

Seth Basham - Wedbush - Analyst

Hope your plan A pans out and isn't too severe. Thank you, Gary.

Allison Malkin - Investor Relations

Thank you. We're ready for the next question.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Probably, take one or two.

Operator

Our next question will come from the line of Chris Horvers from JP Morgan. Your line is open.

Chris Horvers - JP Morgan - Analyst

Thanks, and good evening. So, I had a couple of follow-up questions. First on Chuck's question earlier on the 1% to 3% revenue down guide for the second quarter, are you expecting sort of similar backlog drain or could it be better if the supply chain is opening up a bit? And does that suggest you're on a demand side, you're expecting mid single-digit decline?

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

If supply chain is better, I suppose there is an opportunity to have a better revenue outcome. I mean, this is our latest view of what we're seeing with supply chain and the lead times and continued delays, but also the improvement in delays and stuff. I think there's some opportunity there, but what we'll see.

Chris Horvers - JP Morgan - Analyst

Got it. And then following up on the advertising question, a couple of ago…

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

On demand.

Chris Horvers - JP Morgan - Analyst

Say again. We are not commenting on demand, so, I didn't - that point. Okay. And then on the following up on the advertising question, so last year you had spent $40 million in advertising, a few years ago you spent $100 million. Can you maybe bracket how you're thinking about that to any extent quantitatively, but just maybe even in terms of like how many books you think you'll spend - send out across the different brands?

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

The $40 million reflected essentially no mailing but an outdoor book and some reprints and so and at peak, I think two years ago, we spent $108 million and that reflected an outdoor book, the spring fall books and reprint. So, this year is more like that. I don't, again, we're not guiding the advertising. I don't think it's back to that level frankly, but it's certainly on the higher end of the spectrum just based on our current first book distribution platform.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, it's a meaningful increase. It's, yeah, we're, we're more than doubling the $40 million spend.

Jack Preston - Chief Financial Officer

Yeah. And that's in our guidance, obviously.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, that's in our guidance.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Michael Lasser from UBS. Your line is open.

Michael Lasser - UBS - Analyst

Good evening. Thanks a lot for taking my question. Gary, how big do you think the market that you're going after is in the United States, if we say total home furnishings is $200 billion, the higher end of the market, top 10%, top 20%, that's a $20 billion to $40 billion market. Are you going after the top 1%, top 2%? That's the first part of the question. And the second part is if we assume that you're trading some sales for margin right now, is there a duration or a level of sales if it were to fall to that you would have to reconsider that, that strategy and start to engage in additional demand creation activities?

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Well, first, you're saying the top 10% is $20 billion to $40 billion because you're just running a straight line there. Right. So, you're not, you're not assuming…

Michael Lasser - UBS - Analyst

Yeah.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Well, that's not the way the home market is, right. I just gave an example. You'd have to kind of take that pyramid and flip it upside down. The spending on the home at the high end of the market is exponential, right. it's no different than the distribution of wealth, right. So, you don't have - you don't have 10% of the people, they don't 10% of the wealth in the world, right.

Michael Lasser - UBS - Analyst

Yeah. I understand.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Look at the the wealth distribution, think about how that affects the home market, think about how many homes the people at the top half, think about how much those homes costs. Think about how big they are, think about how much they'll spend for a sofa versus someone down 10%, 20% lower. So, the numbers are massively different than what you're thinking, massively different.

So, yeah, so to start there. The top of the mountain is like it's like thinking about where is the gold in the mountain. It's the really all the gold it's kind of concentrated at the top. So, that's why we're trying to get to the top of the mountain. That's to say we had a nice climb. That's where the rewards are. And so it will be worth whatever kind of short-term pain we've got to take to get there and it's just - it's no different than the path we've been on. We've been doing this for a long time now. So, it's just gets a little harder as you get higher, but the decision-making and the criterias all kind of the same and every several years you're going to make big pivots and big moves. And so, COVID created that opportunity for us to kind of look at things again and make different investments.

So, we're - is there is - there a sales decline that would - you reconsider additional demand creation. Not within a certain period, right. Like if we make some decisions that we think oops, we ran up this part of the mountain and it's slippery up here. There's too much ice. We've got a slowdown, we've got to get some different year. We need more ropes, or whatnot. Yeah, we'll obviously make small modifications as we go, but nothing is going to get us to reconsider where we're going, nothing and we're smart enough to figure it out. We may not make all the right decisions in the moment but we are really fast to improvise and change our mind. So, we're not wedded to anything but our vision and values and beliefs here.

And so - but we believe this is the right strategy. The right vision to have for the company and we can figure it out. We figured out how to get to where we are today. The hardest part of what we've done is, I mean, it's in the past. Like try not to go bankrupt when you have no capital, not making any money. You got to get rid all of this crap, it can barely pay you rent. Like we live it $1.13 billion of trailing 12 months EBITDA. I used to have $40 million to $50 million negative, very big people that lend us money. Now people want to lend $2.5 billion. It's like we have - we're way better resources but that doesn't mean we are any less determined that we're any more lazy, it's not like we're not having conversations in this company on are we going to return to work. Like, you know, people are going to do a better job working at home, like it's not the culture we have here. Those kind of people, they'd still be at the bottom of the mountain, maybe they get up to the first, third and have a little bit of a view and then they camp out there.

Yeah, we're going to try to do something that the world has never seen, that no one has ever done. And that's we say we have to sink until it hurt, until if we can see what others can't see, so we can do what others can't do. We don't have it all figured out but I believe we're directionally right. We are strategically right and we're going to create massive value and we're just, you know, it's not easy though. So, there are no straight lines in business unless you decide, let's fall off the edge and you go straight down, right. When you're trying to climb and build something, there's no straight lines. We're going to get some things right, we're going to get some things wrong, we're going to improvise, we're going to adapt, we're going to overcome. It's just who we are and kind of what we do.

Michael Lasser - UBS - Analyst

Thank you very much and good luck.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. And that's all the time we have for Q&A today. I'll turn the call over to Gary Friedman for any closing remarks.

Gary Friedman - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Great. Well, thank you everyone for your time and we want to thank team RH for doing such an extraordinary job, not only over these past two years with pandemic but the work that is, that is now bearing fruit and coming out of this pandemic. I think is transformational and I just couldn't be more proud of all the leaders on this leadership team and all of the people here at our Center of Innovation in headquarters across the country, throughout our supply chain, the level of kind of invention and innovation in this company is an all-time. Our culture to continues to get stronger and I just could not be more proud of the work we're doing and no matter what everybody to anybody does for its share price short-term, we will reach the top of the mountain, make no mistake about that. So, thank you, everyone.

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