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The Notebook · September 2026

The Beyit personal shopper, explained: describe the piece, we find it

No photo this time: a sentence. How to write the request, what comes back, and why every piece comes with its reason.

1 MIN · 28 September 2026

You have no photo. You have an idea, sometimes a vague one: a cream bouclé armchair, rounded, under €500. The personal shopper takes that sentence and comes back with pieces. It is the scan, in reverse.

How to write the request

In one sentence, as you would to a friend who knows design. The shape, the material, the colour, the budget, in any order. "A round table in light wood, 120 cm, for six." "An arc floor lamp, not the Flos, under €300." The more precise the sentence, the more precise the answer. But a vague request works too: it brings leads rather than an answer.

What comes back

Up to twelve pieces, drawn from the Beyit catalogue: publishers, vintage, entry prices. Each piece comes with its reason, in one line: why it answers your sentence, what fits and what strays. And each piece goes straight to the shop. Beyit sells nothing, it finds.

When to use it instead of the scan

When the object does not yet exist in your head as an image. When you know what you want but not what it is called. And when you have scanned a piece that is too expensive and want the same idea at another price: the sentence does the rest.

What it costs

Nothing. Requests are free, without limit.

A piece in mind? Describe it to the personal shopper, in one sentence.

The Beyit scan

One photo, every piece identified.

Your room, a shop window, an inspiration screenshot: send the photo, we find the pieces and their alternatives at every price.

On iPhone, the app does the same from your camera.