Showhouse Benefits Animal Rescue Fund This Weekend
Six rooms designed and outfitted by top interior decorators at the Animal Rescue Fund’s Thrift and Treasure Shop in Sagaponack will be on display at a designer showhouse, cocktail party, and sale on Saturday that will benefit ARF’s work on behalf of animals.
The rooms, created by Sam Allen, Tracey Cavaniola, Nancy Corzine, Lynda Sylvester, Eldon Wong, and a team comprising John Stedila and Tim Button, will be created using furnishings from the shop and from the designers’ collections. All of the items will be for sale.
The designers are all animal lovers who donated their time and expertise for the sixth annual showhouse event. Mr. Allen, of Sam Allen Interiors, is known for a style described as “clean and comfortable,” touching on themes “from organic elegance to Parisian Hollywood glamour,” according to a press release.
Ms. Cavaniola, of Sag Harbor, is designing a front porch within her space at the shop, while Ms. Corzine is staging an elegant bedroom. John Stedila and Tim Button, from Stedila Design in New York City, will create a “writer’s summertime retreat.”
The title of the room designed by Lynda Sylvester of Sylvester & Co. in Sag Harbor is “The Library Goes to the Dogs,” while Eldon Wong of Eldon Wong Designs has used the PBS series “Downton Abbey” as a theme for a canine-style “Dinner Party at Dogtown Abbey” vignette.
More than 200 guests are expected to attend the preview cocktail party, at which wine from Channing Daughters Winery and hors d’oeuvres from the caterer Peter Ambrose will be served.
The event is co-chaired by Gordon Hoppe, Gigi Mahon, Lisa McCarthy, Alex Papachristidis, and Marshall Watson, with Mary McDonald as this year’s honorary chairwoman.
Also on hand at the showhouse will be some ARF cats and dogs that are ready for adoption.
Tickets are $250 for an early-bird preview and cocktails, for which doors will open at 5 p.m., with $150 for general admission to the cocktail party and showhouse, beginning at 6.
On Sunday and Monday, the thrift shop will suggest a $10 donation for members of the public to view the decorators’ rooms, with children admitted free. Items purchased will be available for pickup after May 31.
Also coming up on the design scene is Hamptons Contemporary, an interior and exterior design and décor fair to be held at the Southampton Elks Club grounds from June 3 to 5.
Founded by Rick Friedman, who created the art fair ArtHamptons, it will showcase the wares of more than 150 exhibitors in a 40,000-square-foot pavilion. The exhibitors include architects, interior decorators, luxury furniture and appliance manufacturers, artisans, home theater experts, and pool and landscape designers.
Architectural Digest magazine and Hamptons Cottages and Gardens are among the fair’s media sponsors.