About Us
Hello. We're a great big emporium of style.
Chairish is the design world's ultimate destination for home furnishings and art. It's beloved by interior designers and tastemakers—who come for the rare vintage, antique and contemporary pieces, and stay for, well, lots more of that, with 2,000+ expertly edited items added daily. Every month, millions of shoppers strike gold (or lacquer, or marble, or ornately carved wood) on Chairish, a platform where buying and selling is smoother, more sustainable, unexpectedly intimate, and always, always delightful.
Chairish is Newsweek's "Best Online Shop" of 2021, and winner of the USA Today Reader's Choice Award for "Best Place to Shop Online for Furniture and Home Decor."
What Makes Us Chairish?
Expert eye
Everything you see on Chairish has been screened by our curators—ensuring our unique and sharply edited inventory meets the highest style standards.
Thinking small
While we might be big, we're made up of many brilliant little parts. Our platform now connects more than 10,000 small businesses, practicing artists and makers with design lovers from around the world.
Sustainably chic
Green shopping means going vintage. Since Chairish began, we've kept 488,000 (and counting) gently loved items in circulation—85% of our inventory is vintage. Every time you rechairish something, be it a space-age lamp or a lavish tiger print rug or a velvety sofa or a rare art book, you’re extending its life and contributing to a kinder, more circular economy.
The Chairish Executive Team
Co-Founder and CEO
Gregg Brockway
- Hometown
- Born in Istanbul and grew up in Los Altos, CA
- University
- Dartmouth College, Harvard Business School
- Past Lives
- (previous jobs) Co-founder & CEO of TripIt, Co-founder of Hotwire, worker bee at Morgan Stanley and Hellman & Friedman, pizza delivery star
- Best Chairish Find So Far
- My silver grey Vladmair Kagan sofa until Anna sold it out from under me (on Chairish of course!).
- Latest Design Freak Outs
- Richard Misrach photographs, augmented reality & the computer voice interface
- The One That Got Away
- A pair of Alvar Aalto tank chairs that should be in my favorite reading spot
- Quote You Live By
- "There is never a perfect time, so let's do it now."
Co-Founder and President
Anna Brockway
- Hometown
- Orinda, CA and Kenilworth, IL
- University
- Columbia University
- Past Lives
- VP of Worldwide Marketing, Levi Strauss & Co.
- Best Chairish Find So Far
- A charming vintage painting of a bullfighter... not my biggest ticket purchase but my most beloved
- Latest Design Freak Outs
- Delft pottery, Mario Torres lighting, John Dickinson everything
- The One That Got Away
- A set of perfectly framed Cy Twombly prints. Still makes my heart ache.
- Quote You Live By
- "Let's try it!"
Co-Founder and CTO
Andrew Denmark
- Hometown
- New York City
- University
- Columbia University (BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science)
- Past Lives
- CTO/Founder TripIt, Director of Engineering at Opsware (formerly Loudcloud) CTO at CityRealty.com
- Best Chairish Find So Far
- A pair of Pearsall-style chairs that had the ugliest, sun-bleached upholstery you could possibly imagine from the early 1960's. We had them re-upholstered and they now proudly sit in our living room
- Latest Design Freak Outs
- We've lived in our new house for over 6 years and haven't had time to decorate it.
- The One That Got Away
- The perfect mid-century floor lamp. I found a unique one that didn’t have a brand name and haven’t seen one like it since! I’ve got my saved searches set up to keep trying, though
- Quote You Live By
- "Anything's possible, it's just software."
CFO
Lyle Poindexter
- Hometown
- San Diego, CA
- University
- University of Southern California
- Past Lives
- VP, FP&A at The RealReal and Restoration Hardware
- Best Chairish Find So Far
- Saarinen Armless Chair in Saddle Leather for the home office
- Latest Design Freak Outs
- Vintage geological maps; French cigar chairs
- The One That Got Away
- A PH 5 pendant light that left for Europe with my inlaws, but could be hanging over our kitchen island
- Quote You Live By
- "Every problem has a solution, usually more than one."
SVP, Platform Services
Sharon Saffel
- Hometown
- Riverside, CA
- University
- California State University, Long Beach
- Past Lives
- COO at Limos.com, VP Customer Operations/ Global Integrations at LesConcierges, VP Air Fulfillment at Expedia, VP Customer Care at Hotwire
- Best Chairish Find So Far
- After years of searching, I found the perfect large-scale vintage ceramic Grecian urn planter.
- Latest Design Freak Outs
- Revitalizing our guest bedroom. Narrowing the inspirations and opportunities is impossible when you want it all.
- The One That Got Away
- A sweet 1950’s Vintage pink dahlia highboy would have been the perfect way to brighten our guest room. Note to self - "if you feel it, buy it."
- Quote You Live By
- "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
Our Story
Chairish began as a glimmering germ of an idea, hatched around a dining table (the site of all eureka moments). A husband and wife—one a tech entrepreneur, the other a fashion executive—lamented how unwelcoming, beige and airless the high-end design world felt. Where was the curious, wide-eyed experimentation? Who sucked out all the fun? They dreamt of a platform, somewhere in cyberspace, where adventurous home decorators could find and cherish an expertly curated array of home furnishings and art. Since then, millions of shoppers and small businesses have connected through Chairish, sharing iconic and often one-of-a-kind pieces, giving them all a new home. There’s now an ever-growing team and a San Francisco HQ. A Chairish design podcast. Even a Chairish magazine. And that’s just the beginning. But enough about us—come explore what makes your heart race in our emporium of style.
