Feather launched just about a year ago to give on-the-move apartment dwellers access to attractive furniture they didn’t have to commit to buying. Now the company has teamed up with West Elm, Pottery Barn, Casper, and Joybird so your home furnishings can look like they belong in a loft in DUMBO.
Reno says that his company is aimed at reducing the all those mattresses, coffee tables, and bedroom sets they get abandoned on sidewalks during an inevitable move by giving people an alternative to ownership. It looks like the sharing economy might not be as dead as we thought. For now, this service is limited to San Franciscans and New Yorkers.