For those whose online project is underway, Decorist’s chat function will go offline precisely once the clock strikes midnight on October 13, forcing users to either seek out a refund or find a way to work with their designer outside of the platform. Those who have booked but not yet started a project with a designer on the platform should be refunded within six to eight weeks. On Monday, a company blog post announced that the platform “is no longer accepting new orders or bookings for our services.” Last week, Decorist became the latest design platform to go defunct. Though the nascent industry already has its share of success stories, its recent history also suggests that success certainly isn’t guaranteed. Within the past decade, there’s been an explosion of start-ups offering interior design services online. Located on the ground floor of a colonial building, the space is dressed in pine flooring, smoke-gray walls, and Shaker-style window coverings, as well as Post Company’s lighting and wood creations made in collaboration with Roll & Hill. Post Collection, opening on October 15 in Lakeville, Connecticut (Post Company founding partner Jou-Yie Chou fell for the bucolic town during the pandemic), will marry Post Company’s upholstered pieces for SixPenny with a slew of books, artworks, and a curated assortment of vintage furniture, rugs, and objects. Post Company, the multidisciplinary Brooklyn- and Wyoming-based studio behind such hospitality hits as The Lake House on Canandaigua and Inness, now has a retail spin-off.
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