Modern Resale runs a warehouse showroom of pre owned and new designer furniture at 5896 Smiley Drive in Culver City, a light industrial pocket of the westside known for design studios and creative offices tucked among its side streets. The company was founded by Stacia Vinar and Sarah Whipple, two design industry veterans who came out of a premier Italian design showroom before deciding to build a resale business around the high end furniture that so often gets replaced during renovations, staging projects, and showroom turnover. Inside the warehouse, shoppers find sofas, lounge chairs, dining and side tables, lighting, storage pieces, and bedroom furniture from luxury names such as B and B Italia, Cassina, Ligne Roset, and Herman Miller, each piece authenticated before it goes on the floor and priced at roughly 40 to 70 percent below its original retail cost. New inventory is added to the online store on a weekly basis, so the selection is never static, and the company encourages shoppers to book an appointment ahead of a visit even though walk ins during open hours are welcome. The warehouse is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m., a schedule built around the reality that most of Modern Resale’s business happens through scheduled appointments, deliveries, and pickups on either side of those hours. What separates Modern Resale from a typical consignment furniture shop is the breadth of its business model beyond the sales floor itself. The company also operates a consignment program for clients looking to sell their own designer furniture, a rental division that supplies pieces for photo shoots, productions, and short term staging, and a home staging service that draws directly from its own warehouse inventory. That combination means the same Cassina sofa or Herman Miller chair moving through the Culver City space might have started life in a stager’s project, a photo shoot, or a private home before landing on the resale floor, and might just as easily leave to serve another staging job before ever reaching a permanent home. For shoppers outside the Los Angeles area, the company ships pieces nationally, extending its reach well past the walk in customers who visit the Smiley Drive location in person. Because true designer furniture depreciates unevenly and is often difficult to source secondhand at real savings, Modern Resale’s model of authenticating, pricing, and rotating high end pieces every week has carved out a specific niche within the broader Los Angeles resale market, one aimed squarely at designers, stagers, and design conscious households rather than general secondhand furniture shoppers. The founders’ backgrounds inside a top tier Italian design showroom inform how pieces are vetted and priced, giving the operation a level of design fluency that a general consignment furniture store typically lacks. Anyone furnishing a home, staging a listing, or simply hunting for an original Herman Miller or Cassina piece at a fraction of its retail price can find real, authenticated inventory rotating weekly at this Culver City warehouse. Modern Resale is a Culver City warehouse showroom, open Wednesday through Saturday, that sells authenticated pre owned designer furniture from brands like B and B Italia, Cassina, Ligne Roset, and Herman Miller at 40 to 70 percent off retail, alongside consignment, rental, and staging services.
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Modern Resale runs a warehouse showroom of pre owned and new designer furniture at 5896 Smiley Drive in Culver City, a light industrial pocket of the westside known for design studios and creative offices tucked among its side streets. The company was founded by Stacia Vinar and Sarah Whipple, two design industry veterans who came out of a premier Italian design showroom before deciding to build a resale business around the high end furniture that so often gets replaced during renovations, staging projects, and showroom turnover. Inside the warehouse, shoppers find sofas, lounge chairs, dining and side tables, lighting, storage pieces, and bedroom furniture from luxury names such as B and B Italia, Cassina, Ligne Roset, and Herman Miller, each piece authenticated before it goes on the floor and priced at roughly 40 to 70 percent below its original retail cost. New inventory is added to the online store on a weekly basis, so the selection is never static, and the company encourages shoppers to book an appointment ahead of a visit even though walk ins during open hours are welcome. The warehouse is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m., a schedule built around the reality that most of Modern Resale’s business happens through scheduled appointments, deliveries, and pickups on either side of those hours. What separates Modern Resale from a typical consignment furniture shop is the breadth of its business model beyond the sales floor itself. The company also operates a consignment program for clients looking to sell their own designer furniture, a rental division that supplies pieces for photo shoots, productions, and short term staging, and a home staging service that draws directly from its own warehouse inventory. That combination means the same Cassina sofa or Herman Miller chair moving through the Culver City space might have started life in a stager’s project, a photo shoot, or a private home before landing on the resale floor, and might just as easily leave to serve another staging job before ever reaching a permanent home. For shoppers outside the Los Angeles area, the company ships pieces nationally, extending its reach well past the walk in customers who visit the Smiley Drive location in person. Because true designer furniture depreciates unevenly and is often difficult to source secondhand at real savings, Modern Resale’s model of authenticating, pricing, and rotating high end pieces every week has carved out a specific niche within the broader Los Angeles resale market, one aimed squarely at designers, stagers, and design conscious households rather than general secondhand furniture shoppers. The founders’ backgrounds inside a top tier Italian design showroom inform how pieces are vetted and priced, giving the operation a level of design fluency that a general consignment furniture store typically lacks. Anyone furnishing a home, staging a listing, or simply hunting for an original Herman Miller or Cassina piece at a fraction of its retail price can find real, authenticated inventory rotating weekly at this Culver City warehouse. Modern Resale is a Culver City warehouse showroom, open Wednesday through Saturday, that sells authenticated pre owned designer furniture from brands like B and B Italia, Cassina, Ligne Roset, and Herman Miller at 40 to 70 percent off retail, alongside consignment, rental, and staging services.
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