The furniture marketplace took the lifting, cleaning and awkward strangers out of buying secondhand. Its 2024 wind-down exposed the fragile bargain behind all that convenience.
The Toronto company sells the tasteful middle - thousands of coordinated, contract-ready pieces backed by warehouses, showrooms and trade tools. Its real product is not the chair. It is fewer ways for a project to go sideways.
Muebles Jamar does not merely sell sofas. It coordinates local makers, extends household credit and moves bulky goods through one of Latin America's largest furniture distribution operations.
Behind a single furniture storefront in Saudi Arabia sits a marketplace that also warehouses, assembles and delivers - and quietly furnishes hotels, offices and government projects for the sellers who can't.