| FEATURE 01.11.10 12:30 PM |
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New York's Top Art & Design Events 2010
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 | The Armory Show
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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1. The Armory Show
Devoted to important works from the 20th and 21st centuries, the annual showcase of contemporary art is a must-attend for artists, critics, curators, and enthusiasts. The 11-year-old show occupies all of the 69th Regiment Armory and Piers 92 and 94 for its March 4 to 7 run.
2. International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Design from around the globe was on display for the more than 23,000 attendees who stopped by the Javits Center during the fair’s 2009 edition, which hosted 552 exhibitors from 34 countries, 38 percent of whom were first-timers. The 2010 fair returns May 15 to 18.
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New York's Top 100 Events, Art Dealers Association of America, Henry Street Settlement, Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, Architectural Digest, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council |
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| EVENT REPORT 04.01.09 2:42 PM |
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With Move to Architectural Digest Show, Diffa Raises Awareness and Foot Traffic (and Still Delivers Design Ideas)
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 | Michael Tavano's graffiti-inspired room for the New York Design Center
Photo: Emily Gilbert for BizBash |
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On Monday night, Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (Diffa) hosted its annual Dining by Design gala at Pier 94—the culmination of five days of events based around tables created by artists and interior, event, and fashion designers. This year, the organization was approached by Architectural Digest to be a part of its home design expo, affording showgoers a chance to also check out Diffa’s installations. "I think running concurrently with the Architectural Digest Home Design Show is an incredible experience in every way. People who are coming to the show are interested in design, but might not have known about us,” said Peggy Bellar, Diffa’s director of special events.
This time the number of tables dipped from 39 to 32, but pairing with Architectural Digest and lengthening the public viewing time to three days helped double foot traffic. “Certainly, this year is a tough year for everyone, and it is great to join forces and expand opportunities for exposure,” Bellar said. Diffa estimates the amount of money raised, however, dropped from $1.031 million to $750,000.
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Diffa Dining by Design, Diffa, Benjamin Moore, Stolichnaya Elit, New York Design Center, Architectural Digest, Rockwell Group, Kravet |
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| NEWS 09.17.08 11:50 AM |
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Emmy Parties and Suites: Who's Going Where
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 | The scene at HBO's 2007 Emmy party
Photo: Gabor Ekecs |
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FROM LOS ANGELES
A scant couple weeks after MTV's Video Music Awards brought a less-than-staggering number of big events into town, the 60th annual Emmy awards show will take to the Nokia Theatre on Sunday night with an anything-but-underwhelming slate of parties and suites on its heels.
On Saturday night, Entertainment Weekly's sixth-annual pre-awards bash, presented by Revlon, will take to the Beverly Hills Post Office. ID-PR is handling publicity.
Sunday night following the awards is when the crush of competing events takes over town. The Academy of Televsion Arts & Sciences' Governors Ball will be held in the Los Angeles Convention Center's West Hall with a "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"-inspired look, produced by Sequoia Productions. Meanwhile, TV Guide’s sixth annual party will take over the Kress, with design by Event Eleven. And HBO's party will take over the Fountain Plaza at the Pacific Design Center with over-the-top design, as is typical, by Billy Butchkavitz.
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Emmys, Gift Suites, Going Green, TV Guide, People Magazine, ET, HBO, Architectural Digest, Entertainment Weekly, YouthAIDS, Environmental Media Association |
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| NEWS 09.16.08 8:00 AM |
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Emmy Event Design Preview: Governors Ball, ET, HBO, and More
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 | A preview of the centerpieces at the Governors Ball
Photo: BizBash |
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FROM LOS ANGELES
With so many competing Emmy-related events on the night of the show—and so many celebrity guests attending them—event producers tend to go downright decadent when it comes to design. Here, a sneak peek at the looks behind some of Emmy night’s biggest events, plus the show's glittering greenroom:
Dwight Jackson, co-chair of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Governors Ball committee, found his design inspiration for this year’s diamond anniversary ball in Marilyn Monroe’s performance of “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the classic film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jackson turned to Sequoia Productions’ Cheryl Cecchetto to produce the event, which will feature diamond-shaped chandeliers hanging from the ceiling of the Los Angeles Convention Center’s West Hall, and Schiaparelli pink (the shade of Monroe’s dress in the musical number) tablecloths and roses on tabletops spread throughout the 147,500-square-foot space.
TV Guide’s sixth annual party will take over the Kress, where event designer and producer Tony Schubert will channel Japan in his creation of an outdoor Zen-like garden complete with koi ponds, bamboo walls, and oversized bonsai trees. Other Eastern-influenced decor elements include a red drawbridge guests will have to cross in order to enter the event, 20-foot-tall images of cherry blossom trees, and a centerpiece in a tented area made out of 1,000 origami cranes.
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Emmys, TV Guide, People Magazine, ET, HBO, Architectural Digest, Hearts on Fire, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
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| THE SCOUT 04.04.08 10:15 AM |
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Diffa's 10 Most-Steal-Able Ideas
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 | Kravet Inc.'s collection of inspirational items
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash |
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Designers at Diffa's Dining by Design showcase always offers a multitude of concepts to adapt to other events. This year's most-likely-to-reappear concepts included patterned seat cushions, veggies as centerpiece fodder, and napkin rings made from colored paper swatches. Here's a list of ideas that made an impression.
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Diffa, Diffa Dining by Design, Domino Magazine, Pratt Institute, Parsons the New School for Design, James Coviello, Michael Tavano, New York Design Center, Architectural Digest, Vicente Wolf, The New York Times |
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| EVENT REPORT 04.02.08 3:44 PM |
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Diffa Showcases Big Tabletop Designs in Smaller Venue
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 | David Stark's dining environment for Benjamin Moore was made mostly out of paint swatches and paper.
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash |
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This year, Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS’s annual Dining by Design fund-raiser moved from its most recent home at the Waterfront to the downtown venue Skylight. The new location had a strong impact on the experience of walking through the showcase, which recruits a slate of designers and sponsors to build imaginative dining environments.
Compared with the Waterfront, with its exposed brick and steel beams (and the benefit's previous homes at the Hammerstein Ballroom and Roseland) Skylight's big white box provided a brighter, less distracting background for the designers' intensely layered creations. And the new site's smaller size necessitated a tighter collection of tables (cut down from more than 50 to 39) that made for a more focused—and more easily navigable—forum for locating trends and gathering ideas.
“It’s always a challenge to find a venue here, and for us, [Skylight is] a very user-friendly venue, with two load-in points—plus it’s a blank canvas for us; it’s a gallery,” said Diffa’s special events manager, Steven Williams. “It’s a little more exclusive because it’s smaller, and we have more sponsors this year.”
So, speaking of trends and ideas, how did the designers fill the new location?
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Diffa, Diffa Dining by Design, Architectural Digest, Benjamin Moore, Beringer, Domino Magazine, Gourmet magazine, Hewlett-Packard, Kravet, Nautica, New York Design Center, The New York Times, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Stolichnaya Elit, Vivienne Tam |
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| NEWS 02.14.08 12:08 PM |
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Oscar Preview: Architectural Digest to Host Dorothy Draper-Inspired Greenroom
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 | AD's greenroom plans for the Oscars
Rendering: Courtesy of Architectural Digest/Dorothy Draper & Co. |
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FROM LOS ANGELES
With the strike officially over, the Oscars are officially on; let the endless parade of comforts for celebrities begin. To that end, Architectural Digest has chosen interior designer Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company, to create the Architectural Digest greenroom at the Academy Awards. It's the sixth consecutive year that the mag will produce the backstage lounge for Oscar presenters and honorees. Load-in commences on February 19 and continues through the rehearsals and awards telecast on February 24.
Varney’s design inspiration will come from the Dorothy Draper-designed Arrowhead Springs Resort—a property that movie stars and film-industry types roamed in the 1940s. Further inspiration comes from her sketches for the Beverly Hills Hotel. This year’s Architectural Digest greenroom will feature flat-panel LCD HDTVs from LG Electronics, New Zealand wool rugs from Nourison, and fabric and furnishings from Kravet, including sofas and slipper chairs upholstered in bright red and white satin.
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Architectural Digest, Oscars, Award Season, Dorothy Draper & Company, LG |
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