Home Decor

Birch Lane Corporate Office

Birch Lane is an offshoot of the popular online furniture and home decor store Wayfair. This new venture was launched in 2014. It offers more traditional furniture selections with “updated” styling and colors.

The company is hoping to appeal to a wide range of customers with a wide range of products. Birch Lane offers traditional furniture at “attainable prices.”One likely customer demographic for Birch Lane is made up of women between the ages of 35 and 55.

Birch Lane also issues annual catalogs, as well as specialty catalogs during certain times of the year.

Despite spending more than $500 million in advertising and seeing an increase in sales of more than 50%, the company posted a net loss for the second quarter of 2018 of $100 million.

Birch Lane is housed in the same corporate office building as Wayfair, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Birch Lane

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Birch Lane also issues annual catalogs, as well as specialty catalogs during certain times of the year.

Despite spending more than $500 million in advertising and seeing an increase in sales of more than 50%, the company posted a net loss for the second quarter of 2018 of $100 million.

Birch Lane is housed in the same corporate office building as Wayfair, in Boston, Massachusetts.

LuxeYard Corporate Office

LuxeYard was founded by Amir Mireskandari & Khaled Alattar in Los Angeles, California. This pair of businessmen wanted to cash in on the flash sale industry. With the help of numerous investors, the company was incorporated in 2009 and went public on the NYSE in 2011.

What follows next depends on whom you talk to, however, the company appears to have been the target of what is known as a pump and dump scheme, where fake investors pump up the stock and then dump it when prices are higher. The company was forced to file for bankruptcy, however, they recently won a lawsuit against the parties they stated were involved in the scheme.

According to the lawsuit, these fraudulent trading activities date back as far as 2012, when certain defendants paid marketing firms millions of dollars to tout LuxeYard’s stock while orchestrating a scheme to sell their shares at the same time. Among those accused of illegally promoting the stock is NBT Equities Research, a company affiliated with Tobin Smith, a former Fox News commentator. In 2014, Mr. Smith agreed to pay more than $250,000 to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that he and his company fraudulently promoted a penny stock to investors.

Today, the company is still operating, but no longer offers flash sales. LuxeYard is now an online marketplace for home furnishings, home decor, and is best known for area rugs. Company headquarters remain in Los Angeles, California.

LuxeYard

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Chairish Corporate Office

Chairish is an online marketplace for unique and vintage furniture, art, and household decor. Founded in 2013 by husband and wife team Gregg and Anna Brockway, who were frustrated when attempting to sell furniture items that no longer fit into their new home.

Chairish offers over 220,000 curated items for sale from individuals, beloved vintage shops, and interior designers. The company accepts furniture and decor with listings that have a minimum price of $25. Listing items is free, and the seller keeps up to 80 percent of the final sale.

The company recently paired with eBay, allowing clients to list their items on both the Chairish site and eBay at the same time, simply by clicking a box on the mobile app.

Architectural Digest named Chairish the top new app for home decorating in 2014 and one of the best design and decorating apps in 2017. On March 9, 2017, the company launched an in-app augmented reality feature, which allows buyers to visualize items in the context of their own home. The Chairish app was named a 2017 Webby Honoree in the Mobile Site & Apps Category for Shopping and reached 1 million monthly visitors in late 2017.

Chairish was recently named #38 on Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, recognizing the company as among the best entrepreneurial companies in the US.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Chairish

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The company recently paired with eBay, allowing clients to list their items on both the Chairish site and eBay at the same time, simply by clicking a box on the mobile app.

Chairish was recently named #38 on Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, recognizing the company as among the best entrepreneurial companies in the US.

Company headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. The company maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

One Kings Lane Corporate Office

One Kings Lane was founded in 2009 by Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. This pair of friends started their own company working out of their own homes and investing less than $100,000 of their own money in their furniture and home decor company. Feldman’s high school aged daughter took most of the pictures for products offered.

The company sells mainly via their online site but recently opened a showroom in New York. One Kings Lane offered many items via a flash sale and at one time had as many as 10 million subscribers. After working for Ralph Lauren, Feldman held her first flash sale and was shocked at how much the company sold. She became convinced that she could do the same thing with home decor and furniture.

One Kings Lane does not make or design any of the items sold. The company has been so successful that similar businesses were flooding the market, such as Fab and Luxeyard. Feldman states that they want One Kings Lane to be the Tiffany of flash sale home decor and furniture sites, offering quality, not quantity.

At one time the company was estimated to be worth $900 million. Flash sales fell out of favor by the end of 2010 and Bed Bath and Beyond acquired the company in 2016 for $12 million. Today, the company operates as a subsidiary. Headquarters remain in San Francisco, California.

One Kings Lane

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Lamps Plus Corporate Office

Lamps Plus was founded by Dennis Swanson and his wife Manja. Originally the name of the store was Lamps R Us, but after being sued by Toys R Us, the company changed the name.

Swanson and his wife began by designing and manufacturing lights and lamps for other retailers before deciding to go into business for themselves. The company holds several patents for unique light fixtures, including one for a torchiere floor lamp with adjustable side lamps.

From their single location in Los Angeles, the company now has more than 40 locations, as well as international stores. Lamps Plus also offers an active e-Commerce site. The company website was picked as one of the top fifty retail websites by Internet Retailer magazine in 2004 and has remained in the top 200 every single year since.

The company has worked with a number of designers, including industrial pattern designer Stacy Garcia, furniture and lighting designer Sergio Orozco, lighting designer Robert Sonneman, artist Thomas Kinkade, as well as pop artist Ragnar.

Lamps Plus is a member of the Better Business Bureau and Dennis Swanson has served as President of the American Lighting Association.

Global headquarters for the company are located in Chatsworth, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. In 2017, the company opened their first location in Austin, Texas, with the stores focus being on LED lighting.

Lamps Plus

Lamps Plus was founded by Dennis Swanson and his wife Manja. Originally the name of the store was Lamps R Us, but after being sued by Toys R Us, the company changed the name.

History

Lamps Plus is a member of the Better Business Bureau and Dennis Swanson has served as President of the American Lighting Association.