Retromodern.com - another one bites the dust  

Other than their website being down
how do you know they have actually gone out of business?
I did a search on retromodern news and nothing came up.

They are gone!
The other design shops in Atlanta and a national lighting company have provided this information. The "Grand Opening" on February 2, 2009 did not happen, the doors are closed at the new location with absolutely no activity, the phones are never answered, and orders placed (several thousand dollars) have not been filled since 12-28-08. Not all information is available on the internet. They are history.

Sign of the times, I suppose
I have purchased from them because they maintained a brick and mortar retail presence and inverntory; although, I used there online mail order division as I do not live in Atlanta.
I found their telephone sales staff to be enthusiastic and helpful - imagine that!
And, they provided fun incentives for mail order purchases. I received an autographed copy of An Eames Primer once and some nifty tee-shirts for my other orders. I wish all retailers were keen enough to differentiate themselves in some way. While the cost of these items was negligible I have recommended Retro and continued to use them myself.

That's sad news
especially since they seemed to be ethical in the way they ran their business.
Well, there's still Hivemodern and Highbrow, as well as Unica Home and All Modern.

well at least there's........
allmodern is just one of literally hundreds of websites operated by csn stores..... do you really want to buy your eames chair from a company that also operates "everycrockpot.com" i certainly don't..... as for unica they seem more interested in selling gnome shaped soap and other weird knock-knacks.

Their site says that a new...
Their site says that a new website is coming soon.
Maybe they are just having to regroup!?

face it.....
they are finished, chapter 7 bankruptcy.
you don't pull your website down if you are trying to regroup.... it means you are dead.

They must've been on shaking ground
long before the economy started to tank.
I expect some other websites like Retromodern will bite the dust before mid-summer, but Retromodern's early demise must've been other issues.

agreed......
they must have been in a weak position to start with..... the economy isn't that bad yet. DWR was in a weak position too and their stock is now trading at 59 cents a share and they have massive overhead of 70 stores.... DWR probably should only have 20 stores tops.

whoooops !
make that .45 cents a share for DWR

ooopsie !
make that .39 cents a share for DWR now.....................