For such a pipsqueak of a city, Hudson sure does manage to pack in a lot of fabulosity, on some days just within the square footage of one street address. Stair Galleries (549 Warren Street), whose Dominick Dunne auction was written about in the New York Times Style section last week , has once again filled its exhibition floors with a trove of glamorous items for its 20th Twentieth Century Fine and Decorative Arts sale. In this case glam doesn’t have to be very costly– exemplified by the Cecil Beaton photograph (estimate $300 -$500) pictured above – or famous, for that matter (a bevy of beautiful paintings by the now little-known but startlingly contemporary 1920s painter Merton Clivette, pictured below). The auction takes place Saturday, December 4 at 11 am. (Visit http://stairgalleries.com to see lots of lots.) –Scott Baldinger
