RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC

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Exhibit 3(i)

RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC.

PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:

(1) The name of the corporation is PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC.

(2) The original Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on April 30, 1986.

(3) The Board of Directors of the corporation has duly adopted this Restated Certificate of Incorporation without a vote of the stockholders pursuant to the provisions of Section 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. This Restated Certificate of Incorporation only restates and integrates and does not further amend the provisions of the corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation as heretofore amended or supplemented, and there is no discrepancy between the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation as heretofore amended and supplemented and the provisions of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the form set forth as follows:

RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC.

FIRST: The name of the corporation is PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC.

SECOND: The registered office of the corporation is to be located at 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington in the County of New Castle, in the State of Delaware. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc.

THIRD: The purpose for which the corporation is formed is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

FOURTH: The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is five hundred twenty million (520,000,000). The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue are divided into two classes, five hundred million (500,000,000) shares of which are designated as Common Stock having a par value of one-tenth of one cent ($0.001) per share (the “Common Stock”), and twenty million (20,000,000) shares of which are designated as Preferred Stock having a par value of one dollar ($1.00) per share (the “Preferred Stock”).

Subject to § 213 of General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, each holder of Common Stock shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each share of Common Stock held by such holder.

The Preferred Stock may be issued in one or more series. With respect to each series of Preferred Stock, the Board of Directors of the corporation is expressly authorized to fix by

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