Ever wish you could visit Phillip Lim’s studio? Or lunch with David Weeks in Tribeca? These experiences and more join a host of big-ticket items—a Michael Stipe sculpture, a Rachel Comey shopping spree, Cat Power’s guitar—at tonight’s auction organized by the new nonprofit Art and Design Responds to provide disaster relief to earthquake victims in Nepal.

Created by Tyler Hays, founder of furniture company BDDW, the organization is a band of artists, designers, and other creatives who will donate their products, skills, and upstate studios to raise relief funds for areas in need around the world. “I didn’t want it to be about me or my company,” Hays explains. “I wanted to create a place where artists and designers could directly effect change and relief using their craft.”

Experiences will be auctioned live at tonight’s event, while a weeklong eBay sale, starting today, will offer a collection of stylish furniture, art, and lighting. So get your paddles (or your mice) ready.

For more information or to buy a ticket ($100) to tonight’s event, visit artanddesignrespondom .

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