Even in this day and age of digital retail, looking for your ideal appliance in an actual brick-and-mortar retail store provides an unmatched experience with display units for you to handle and real people on site to answer questions. We understand that for those of you who really care about your appliances, you probably won’t be picking it up online – so we took a look around to bring you this list of the top five appliance stores (2016-2017) found in Bangsar.
De Dietrich @ Bangsar Shopping Centre
Avant-garde yet traditional, Le Maison De Dietrich has a rich and storied history spanning over three centuries in the realm of kitchen appliances, beginning in 1684 as a metal forge among the German diaspora of Strasbourg, France. The brand found prominence when it was graced by the polarising French monarch Louis XV, and subsequently led by one of history’s first and most prominent female designers – Amélie de Dietrich. The De Dietrich brand became associated with the “Art de vivre” (the French ‘art of living’) after they introduced the world’s first induction cooker hobs, entering the parlance of Le Cordon Bleu and Michelin-starred chefs when the renowned Parisian chef Pierre Gagnaire began endorsing their offerings. If their telescopic and automatic varieties of fume hoods do not impress, their programmable cooker hobs and cast iron fixtures surely will.
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ESH Electrical @ Bangsar Shopping Centre
Established in the SS2 district in 1983, ESH Electrical offers a wide range of electrical home appliances intended for the mass market out of their newer store in the Bangsar Shopping Centre. With ESH Electrical’s extensive inventory bearing both prominent and specialty names, you would be hard pressed to find a brand that is not represented in their store. One of the few electrical appliance chains with a dedicated customer dare department, it is clear that ESH is especially serious about customer service.
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Kitchen Culture
The place for premium European kitchen brands – Kitchen Culture’s showroom on Jalan Maarof features over 20 renowned brands of appliances including Foster’s modular offerings, Bora’s cooktops, Liebherr’s wine chillers, and fittings from the likes of Poggenpohl, Eggersmann, Rational, La Cornue, and Häcker – all customisable to individual tastes with the aid of an in-house design team.
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KitchenAid Experience Store @ Bangsar Village
While the name KitchenAid is more synonymous with electric mixers, their showroom in Bangsar Village was apparently built with the aim of proving that the KitchenAid brand should also be known for their own extensive range of kitchen appliances both small and large. In addition to their iconic mixers and the accessories, KitchenAid offers appliances of their own designs: including hobs, hoods, ovens, dishwashers, refrigerators; as well as the kind of professional equipment expected of fine dining restaurants: large-scale ice makers and warming drawers.
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TBM @ Bangsar Village
A family-owned and second-generation managed establishment, the Tan Boon Ming appliance store as long been a fixture of Bangsar – even before the district was revamped with the construction of the Bangsar Village shopping centre. Founded in 1945, Tan Boon Ming began as a bicycle store before diversifying into the realm of appliances by 1953. Since officially incorporating in 2000, the neighbourhood store identifies itself as a one-stop electrical chain offering products ranging from kitchen appliances to audio and video equipment – while offering repair, maintenance, and spare parts supply services as an expression of the company’s emphasis on customer service.
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*Brands are listed alphabetically.
