PROVIDENCE – The $1 million-backed, Forbes-recognized Greycork furniture company closed its doors in March, according to multiple online sources.
As early as Wednesday, April 5, the Providence-based, easy-to-assemble furniture company’s website reported “all products are out of stock.”
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The LinkedIn profile of John Humphrey, founder of Greycork, reports that the company shut down last month after four years in business.
Additionally, the Thayer Street showroom was locked Thursday afternoon.
Humphrey did not return repeated calls and messages requesting comment.
Billed as a competitor to IKEA, Greycork was highlighted in the art and style category of the Forbes “30 under 30” list released in January 2016.
In June of last year the company announced they closed a $1 million series seed funding round headed up by New York City-based ff Venture Capital and others.
An ff Venture Capital representative declined to comment on the closure of the company, which targeted urban-dwelling millennials.
An April 3 editor’s note on design blog ApartmentTherapy.com, noted Greycork had gone out of business. They were made aware of the closure when a comment cited a Curbed.com article which published an email from Humphrey apologizing to a customer for canceling their order because the company was “winding down operations.” The email was dated March 13.
In January, two months prior to the shuttering of Greycork, the furniture company was named one of 11 trailblazers to follow in 2017 by the Providence Journal.
The other three founders, Alec Babala, Myung Chul “Bruce” Kim and Jonah Willcox-Healey graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Humphrey graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth and Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Emily Gowdey-Backus is a PBN staff writer. PBN researcher Nicole Dotzenrod contributed to the reporting of this article.
