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Phillips
Phillips has spent 230 years learning how to make a room want something. Its modern trick is turning that theater into a focused global marketplace for art, design, watches and jewels - without trying to sell everything else.
The Artling
The Artling is a Singapore-based online gallery and art consultancy founded in 2013 by Talenia Phua Gajardo. It connects collectors, interior designers, architects, property developers and brands with a curated selection of contemporary art and design from more than 6,000 artists and designers worldwide. Alongside its e-commerce platform, the company runs an end-to-end art advisory and trade business for residential, hospitality and corporate projects, and has extended into digital art through a curated NFT marketplace.
Masterworks
Masterworks is a New York fintech that lets everyday investors buy fractional shares in multimillion-dollar blue-chip paintings by artists such as Basquiat, Picasso, Warhol and Banksy. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Scott Lynn, the company buys individual artworks, registers each as a public offering with the SEC, and sells shares for as little as $20, then holds the work for several years before selling it and distributing proceeds. It reached unicorn status in 2021 after a $110M Series A and has grown to more than one million members.
Fair Warning
Fair Warning is a New York-based, members-only art auction platform founded in 2020 by Loic Gouzer, the former Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's. Rather than staging sprawling sales, Fair Warning sells one carefully chosen lot at a time to a screened community of collectors through its mobile app, where bidding happens with a swipe. The company positions itself as a leaner, more transparent alternative to legacy auction houses, charging a flat 15% buyer's premium and building a catalogue around artists it has conviction about.