After 50 Years in Business, Interior Designer Rita St. Clair is ‘Downsizing’ and Auctioning Off Pieces of Her Collection

5/24/17

By Ed Gunts, Baltimore Fishbowl

Rita St. Clair, the Baltimore-based interior designer, has traveled around the world in search of furniture and decorative arts for the various restaurants, hotels and residences she helped create over the years.

Now many of the items that never found a permanent home are going up for auction in a day-long sale largely devoted to her collection. Alex Cooper Auctioneers has set June 3 as the date for the sale, which will feature approximately 200 pieces, including furniture, accessories, lighting and carpets.

“She is one of the finest, most respected, most famous designers in Baltimore,” said auctioneer Joseph Cooper.

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