The Auctioneer Behind the $1.9 Million Joan Didion Sale Can’t Believe Those Prices Either

To think Colin Stair almost left the Le Creuset behind. This was months ago, when Stair was on a tour of Joan Didion’s Upper East Side apartment to select items that STAIR Galleries—the house for which he is the head auctioneer—would curate in a landmark auction of the late writer’s treasures. The planned sale would benefit two charities, with proceeds funding Parkinson’s research in New York and supporting a scholarship for women writers in Didion’s own Sacramento. For Stair, the visit was both a thrill and an almost somatic experience: “You could feel the cerebral sort of pulse of the… Read Full Article