HOW IT RUNS (READ THIS FIRST)A 12-year European design e-commerce that one owner runs remotely in a few hours a week — because the repetitive 90% is automated with AI: product listings drafted and adapted, the store and listings translated across languages, pricing built off a 12-year sold-price archive, and customer replies drafted. You are not buying a job — you are buying a proven AI operating system sitting on a moat you cannot build quickly: 12 years of established seller accounts on the platforms hardest to get onto (1stDibs, Pamono, Chairish), plus a Central-European sourcing pipeline.Honest line: sourcing decisions, photography and crated freight still need a human — this is AI-augmented, with the owner as the judgment layer, not a hands-off black box. A buyer inherits the system for the repetitive 90% and simply steps into the decision seat.
THE NUMBERSRevenue ~EUR 260k (2024) → ~EUR 332k (2025, +28%) → tracking ~EUR 410k this year (+23%). SDE ~EUR 60k. Top markets US & France.Note on the figures above: the platform's fields are USD-only and labelled "EBITDA" — the number shown is normalized owner earnings (SDE), not accounting EBITDA. The business is run lean and tax-optimized, so reported net understates it. The full add-back bridge and the inventory valuation come under a short mutual NDA.Structure is flexible (cash / earn-out / seller note; inventory valued separately). Fully remote and relocatable, with aredactedday handover.
WHAT IT ISFor twelve years I've made a living doing something I love: rescuing the best of 20th-century Czech and Central-European design — Halabala's armchairs, Jiroutek's EXPO 58 cabinets, hand-blown Bohemian glass from Kamenický Šenov — and sending it to people around the world who fall for it the way I did.
Your20th is not a dropship Shopify store. Every piece is real: found in an attic, an estate or a family's living room, authenticated, often restored by hand, photographed with care, and shipped in crated freight so it arrives perfect. It is a curated point of view on an era, built one object at a time.
WHAT A BUYER INHERITSNot just a website and revenue — a living dealership with soul, and a moat that is genuinely hard to copy:- The pieces: ~150 owned + ~350 on consignment — appreciating, design-historical objects, not generic "vintage."- The distribution: a vetted seller on the platforms hardest to get onto — 1stDibs, Pamono, Chairish — plus Etsy, Selency, Vinterior and our own store. 12 years, 4.9/5, 5,000+ pieces delivered worldwide, zero damage. Reputation you cannot buy.- The supply: a Central-European network of pickers, families, estates and restorers — the real defensibility, impossible to spin up from outside.- The brand & the eye: 12 years of taste, photography, content and customers who trust it.
The upside is open: grow the own store, build trade / interior-designer relationships, add marketplaces and countries, or fold it into an existing design business for instant catalog and hard-to-get accounts.
After twelve years I am selling for personal reasons — the business is alive and growing, and I would rather hand it to someone who will love it as I have than wind it down.