The Mission

“But I think it consistently its mission is to take collections from people who were on the road, personal collections who were at the event and who have a unique story which ties to and accompanies the actual art.”

David Bernstein

I just thought I started looking and I said, Wow, there’s some really nice art here for the art that was initially. So, you know, I like this stuff. It’s art, you know, what is it, you know, to each his own. And actually, the first real collection of art that I put together were posters of cargo posters for airlines and cargo ships. I still have it. Beautiful. Forties, fifties. You know, Lufthansa Airlines, 1940 or Hap Hag, Lloyd Steamship Lines or whatever. Beautiful, beautiful stuff for the art. But it’s I have a connection to it right because I, I did a lot of shipping in my lifetime and, and the history of it, I think initially it was the art. That’s, that’s what drew me to it. Right. But then I realized that it could be a conduit for people I worked with for a long period of time to take these great collections that are sitting in garages and closets and not being seen and potentially monetize them and get some value for them if that was important to them. Actually let people see it or experience it and so forth. And of course the direction that stage door ultimately goes, it’s a moving target.

But I think it consistently its mission is to take collections from people who were on the road, personal collections who were at the event and who have a unique story which ties to and accompanies the actual art. So it’s cool because we can hear the back story of a single backstage pass on a single night in a single place from a person who was there, and how we ultimately decided what, what’s the ultimate value might not be monetary, it might just be the history, the nostalgia, the story. But we’re still trying to figure that out. 

David Bernstein / Stagedoor Founder