Wright

Wright is the premier auction house specializing in modern and contemporary design. With expertise and creative innovation, Wright has transformed the global market for modern design.

Founded 2000
16-50 employees
  • Marketplace
  • Headquarters address
    1440 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL 60642, USA

    About Wright

    Wright is the premier auction house specializing in modern and contemporary design. Since its founding in 2000, Wright has handled more than 40,000 lots across the spectrum of 20th and 21st century design.

    With expertise and creative innovation, Wright has transformed the global market for modern design. Wright has pioneered entire fields of collecting, championed architecture at auction and presented fine art with dependable results, cultivating an illustrious place within the auction industry. With unprecedented and informative presentation, Wright has captured that attention of distinguished collectors around the globe—buyers and sellers alike—to become a leading resource in all things design.

    http://www.wright20.com

    Our Workplace

    Wright is a proudly small team who are highly-efficient and hard-working. Our team creative team is built around award-winning and industry-leading creative team of five full-time designers and one in-house web developer. We are heavily weighted creatively in this way because we place so much of our focus on creating the highest quality print/web materials in our industry. Wright seeks an individual who is engaged in our subject matter and drools over things such as MCM, Eames, Saarinen and Nakashima. We are thought-leaders in modern and contemporary design and art at auction and in the world at large. It is essential that applicants be as excitable and sensitive to this material as we are.

    We are looking to staff up with a back-end wizard to compliment our established staff of creatives and to work as a conduit between existing IT vendors and internal creative staff to bring our forward-thinking ideas to life. We need someone who is a wizard both on the server side of things but also programmatically. The right applicant is someone who wears many hats, has an aggreable nature, and enjoys a good challenge. Highly demanding, yet highly rewarding. You will be looked to maintaining and improving upon existing online applications, building new applications and seeing them safely into the future.

    Wright Now

    Wright Now is a sub-brand of Wright and is a web space we quite enjoy and one that feels like were we want to head in the future. Forward thinking in its design and build it represents the passion and attention to detail we put into all of our assets. Please peruse this website to get an idea of where we're headed with our focus on technology and interaction.

    In short Wright Now is our immediate point of sales platform, versus our more traditional auction sales we are most known for. The space is more experimental and forward thinking, and approach we want to bring to our main website over time.

    http://www.wright-now.com/

     

    Tech stack

    Rackspace Cloud, Debian, NGINX, MYSQL, PHP-FPM, Laravel, Blade, Drupal7, Drush, React.js, Elasticsearch, Composer, Bootstrap, Gulp, Grunt, SASS

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    401k plan

    Health and wellness

    Insurance (Health)
    Insurance (Dental)
    Insurance (Vision)
    Insurance (Life)
    Insurance (Disability)
    Wright - About 20 times a year we all pile into our auction space to pitch in during the day of sale. A company of this size means you are hands on at all levels of interaction, including assisting during our finest moments at auction.
    Wright - Impromptu meeting spaces are had throughout Wright, or an opportunity to sit and relax in some of the worlds finest furniture.
    Wright - We are located in Chicago's West Loop at Hubbard and Nobel, a quick walk to both the Blue and Green line stops. Chicago hippest restaurants and bars are a stones throw away.
    Wright - Wright has recently expanded into NYC with a gallery/exhibition space where we routinely showcase highlights of our auctions and exhibit artists/designers with one-off shows.
    Wright - Numerous gallery spaces in our Chicago offices fill the old print warehouse we have come to call home. An wide and ever-changing array of jaw-dropping design/art circulate our space.