To the trade
Interior designers, architects and dealers see net prices and the full condition file. The convention runs 10–20%; ours is a claim on a signed-in identity, not a discount code that leaks into a forum.
What the tier actually is
A trade account is a claim on the Cloudflare Access token, checked by this Worker on every request — not a coupon, not a cookie, not a price that changes if you clear your browser. The same gate already sits in front of five other surfaces in this estate, and it is the reason you had to sign in to read this page.
What it gets you
- Net pricing on everything in Objects, including the objects showing "price on request".
- The condition file in full: losses, restorations, replaced elements, and what was done in our own workshop rather than before we had it.
- First refusal on a named maker before an object is catalogued publicly.
- A reservation that holds on payment intent rather than on completion. Quantity here is always one, and two designers buying the same cabinet is the failure that matters.
What it does not get you
An authentication opinion. Period-versus-reproduction is ten to fifty times of value and no amount of software changes that — the call stays with the dealer, in writing, on the invoice, and it is not blurred into a confidence score.
Consignment
If you are placing rather than buying: a consignor sees what of theirs is with us, what it made, and what is owed in commission. That portal is the next thing built, and it will be on this same gate.
Opening an account
Two references from the trade, or a VAT number and one. We are new to this and we would rather say so than pretend to twenty-five years we have not had — the twenty-five years belong to the dealer we work with, whose stores are in Zurich, and that is a different claim.