Chairish
Chairish is the design world’s ultimate e-commerce website for home furnishings and art. It is beloved by interior designers, tastemakers, and those searching for a unique item for their home. A husband and wife team are at the core of Chairish, who dreamt of somewhere in cyberspace where adventurous home-decorators could find, re-use, and cherish vintage home furnishings and art. Every day more than 2000 expertly edited items are added. This is an online marketplace where buying and selling is smoother, more sustainable, unexpectedly intimate, and always delightful.
Chairish offers many different ways to browse their site. You can choose to shop this online marketplace for antiques and vintage by style, by maker, by region, or through their own featured collections and staff choices. The broad categories on the site are furniture, art, lighting, tabletop and bar, bed and bath, rugs, and garden decor. Regular visitors to this platform will be pleased to see they can head straight to ‘new arrivals’ to check out everything added since the last time they were there!
It is incredibly easy for buyers to contact the seller on Chairish. Threads of questions and answers are displayed on the product pages, which can be valuable additional information about different items. There is no need to pay the asking price of an item on this platform straight away. Buyers can make offers on the listed items. As long as the offer is at least 50% of the listed price, the seller will seriously consider it. The cost of shipping obviously varies according to the size of the item bought, though if you are local to the seller you can collect your purchase for free. Searching this e-commerce website for antiques and vintage is intuitive and you can choose to follow your specific search terms to be notified when anything new from that particular category comes onto this platform.
For sellers, Chairish offers some of the lowest commission rates in the industry. Depending on the chosen plan, 70%-80% of the selling price goes to the seller. With millions of views of the website each day, sellers are guaranteed an incredibly large audience for their goods. Chairish offers a great deal of help with listing to ensure that items are highlighted and tagged for maximum visibility.
Chairish offsets 100% of the estimated carbon emissions from US shipping and continually seeks to decrease their environmental impact wherever possible. In fact, one of the motivating factors for creating this online antique marketplace was to keep items in circulation as much as possible and turn away from throw-away culture. It is rewarding to know that our shopping can have a positive impact on the environment!
