Martha Stewarts Benefit Tag Sale Evolves Into Benefit Shop Online Auction
Sale Slated For June 15
June 03, 2022
The Great American Tag Sale is officially over, but fans of domestic and style icon Martha Stewart who missed this one-of-a-kind experience have another chance to own some of her prized possessions. No ordinary tag sale, the two-day event on her expansive Katonah, N.Y., property was an exclusive affair with $250 tickets for entry on the first day selling out within minutes. The April 23 and 24 sale benefitted the Martha Stewart Center for Living at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Media crews attended, and buyers ranged from neighbors to high-profile interior designers who shopped for their clients. Among them was another Westchester County business owner, who is philanthropically minded like Stewart. Pam Stone, owner and founder of The Benefit Shop Foundation in Mount Kisco, runs auctions with items both donated and consigned to her auction gallery, with profits going to local charities. She arrived late in the afternoon on day one to shop the sale and bought out Stewarts vintage poster collection, which came from her Maine property originally built for and furnished by Edsel Ford. Stewart bought the home fully-furnished, so the posters were originally Fords. Stewart and Stone got to talking at the tag sale about their shared interests, and the end result was Stone going home with a lot more than just posters. At the end of the weekend, she and her team packed up seven truckloads of items from the tag sale that will make up a specialty auction on Wednesday, June 15, with proceeds benefiting Stewarts Center at Mount Sinai, which offers primary care to older adults. I came here to shop the tag sale and was thrilled to be able to assist Marth in extending the fundraising reach of her tag sale by expanding it into an auction, said Stone. We share a passion for philanthropy, and Martha told me that she was delighted that I could take her items and give them a global audience in our online auction. Items are currently being cataloged and photographed for the June sale, which occupies a sweet spot in Stones auction schedule, replacing her monthly Red Carpet multi-estate auction that usually takes place on the second Wednesday of the month. Among Stewarts items to be auctioned will be farmhouse-style furniture that she personally painted, brightly colored braided rugs, and a myriad of items for the home she has designed and sold through her brands, ranging from kitchenware to DIY goods. And, of course, that collection of vintage posters. Specific details on auction highlights will be announced in the coming weeks. The Benefit Shop Foundation auction gallery is at 185 Kisco Ave, Suite 201, in Mount Kisco, N.Y. For further information, visit www.thebenefitshop.org or call 914-864-0707.
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