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NEW YORK, June 27, 2001 -- Good event planners
are always looking for ideas, and here are some great
ones. BiZBash.com Idea Center announced
(June 27) today its first seasonal BiZBash Honor Roll
representing the top 10 ideas, concepts and trends from
real events that are having an impact on the event world
in New York and beyond. Honorees include the bed decor
for Sex and the City's opening party, Hors d'oeuvres
on the Walls, and Avi Adler surreal environments.
BiZBash
is the first comprehensive media outlet targeted exclusively
to corporate event planning and business entertaining
professionals, meeting planners and hospitality executives.
ccording
to David Adler, BiZBash CEO and editorial director,
"With more than 100,000 events annually, New York City
is the event capital of the world. This season alone
our editorial team covered more than 150 events and
have chosen these 10 winners to represent the current
style of events in New York." Stories and pictures on
each of the honor roll events can be found at www.BiZBash.com.
The
BiZBash Honor Roll - Spring 2001:
Kennedy
Style at the Costume Benefit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit of Jackie
Kennedy's clothes from her time in the White House is
drawing long lines and lots of press, and you can expect
Robert Isabell's decor for the Kennedy-themed Costume
Institute benefit to be equally influential.
Big,
Sexy Beds for Sex and the City
Floralia's Carter Field designed a group
of large, beautiful beds for Sex and the City's
season premiere party, which he gave a kind of Pucci-meets-Morocco
feel. It was a sexy spring soiree.
Fashion
Awards' Cool, Changing Stage
Most award shows need to stimulate audience members
as much as possible, and the stage at the CFDA awards
was a dramatic, changing part of the event. Kevin Krier
& Associates' minimalist set looked like a completely
white Calvin Klein store--until Scharff Weisberg put
colored lights and projections on it. The stage changed
constantly throughout the show, from bold, solid colors,
to patterns, to the names of the nominees with pictures
of their work.
Hors
d'oeuvres on the Walls
At the opening party for the Felissimo Design House,
guests never had to wait for a waiter to come by with
food. Instead, they could pick hors d'oeuvres right
from the wall of the reception. The fun, unusual idea
puts a new spin on a cocktail party.
Avi
Adler's Surreal Decor for Robin Hood
For the Robin Hood Foundation's annual gala--one
of the big-time benefits of the spring--Avi Adler
designed not one, but two separate--but equally surreal--environments
for the star-packed evening. The look was truly unique.
Useful
Conference Badges for Inside.com
This was a stylish, useful take on name badges: Attendees
at Publisher's Weekly and Inside.com's Book Industry
Summit wore metal chains around their necks that were
strung with a small booklet that showed the person's
name and included a small version of the day's program,
printed upside-down so attendees could read it without
taking it off. A brilliant idea for conference and meeting
planners.
Lush
Floral Decor at Oprah's Big Anniversary Bash
Celebrity decor designer Preston Bailey won raves from
Oprah Winfrey herself at O magazine's first anniversary
party. Bailey's lush floral pieces--including 10 chandeliers
covered in flowers, with long white candles--will surely
be copied.
Candie's
Big Benefit Gets Top Teen Entertainers
It was a dream lineup for an event designed to send
a message to teens: Destiny's Child, 98 Degrees, Macy
Gray and 'NSync all performed at the Candie's Foundation's
launch party and benefit.
The
Return of the Smoking Lounge at GLAAD Awards
Lucky Strike sponsored a special lounge for smokers
at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's
Media Awards. Instead of watching from the ballroom,
smokers could sit back with a martini and watch the
show on giant video screens. Regardless of how you feel
about smoking, this idea was an original idea you can
steal: Why not sponsor a special area--smoke-free or
not--at an industry event?
Francis
Ford Coppola's Italian Street Fair
Summer in New York isn't complete without street
fairs, and Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola
put together a traditional Italian street festival to
promote his new line of pastas and sauces. The fun,
family-style event was a great alternative to a typical
product launch.
The
BiZBash.com Idea Center
is a free online and offline resource center for special
events and business entertaining professionals that
was created to fill a real need: to find localized "nooks
and crannies" information to help in producing effective
events. BiZBash.com is the most extensive database of
the best event resources and has pages of industry gossip,
personality profiles and coverage of all types of parties
and events.
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