| NEWS 09.30.08 3:41 PM |
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Domino to Host Bazaar-Style Shopping Event in Culver City Furniture Mart
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FROM LOS ANGELES
After the dust surrounding Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week settles at nearby Smashbox Studios, consumers will have a chance to scoop up some style for their homes at the H.D. Buttercup furniture showroom in Culver City. Inspired by California living of the past and present, Domino magazine will host "The Domino Bazaar," a weekend of shopping and design in the sprawling space.
Open to the public from October 17 through 19, the sale will feature more than 20,000 square feet of furnishings and accessories, all selected by Domino magazine and styled in room vignettes. The event will also offer free consultations with design experts, plus classes on topics like flower arranging, wine selecting, and children's crafts. A portion of the sales from tickets—which are $20 and include a subscription to the decorating mag—will benefit the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America.
The Conde Nast magazine staged the shopping event in New York the past two years, but will not do so this year. —Alesandra Dubin
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Domino Magazine, AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, Condé Nast |
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| MY FAVORITE VENDORS 05.29.08 1:35 PM |
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Acria Creates Event Buzz With Deborah Hughes
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Photo: Russell L. Weiss |
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Scott Drevnig stepped into his position as director of art and event marketing at AIDS Community Research Initiative of America in 2006. Prior to joining Acria, he worked in media marketing for HBO and was the director of sales and marketing for Preston Bailey. Drevnig now produces roughly 10 annual events, including a Vanity Fair-sponsored benefit in the Hamptons and the big annual “Unframed” fund-raiser hosted by Domino magazine.
PR: “When we need to publicize one of our events to the fashion, art, and media people, Deborah Hughes is amazing and very connected. She’s an industry veteran who does PR for Donna Karan. Deborah is very quick and efficient, and has a wonderful supporter base. She brings great press on board, which is such a gift to us, since we need to raise money and awareness.”
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AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, HBO, Vanity Fair, Domino Magazine |
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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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| EVENT REPORT 10.17.07 1:59 PM |
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Domino Models Shopping Event on General Store
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 | Domino's take on an old-fashioned general store.
Photo: Alison Whittington for BizBash |
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Shelter shopping magazine Domino is designed to make it simple for readers to purchase the products featured in its pages. But even-more-instant gratification was the theme at the second annual Domino Bazaar this past weekend. Modeled after an upscale flea market, the consumer shopping event offered a selection of products featured in the magazine or sold by sponsors, all available for purchase at a special price. For a $20 admission fee, attendees also got a tote and a one-year subscription to the magazine.
The magazine’s creative services director, Dana DeVito, oversaw the event, and David Stark produced it. This year’s bazaar was held at Skylight (which, at 18,000 square feet, is nearly double the size of the 10,000-square-foot Altman Building, last year’s venue) and was increased to four days from two. The larger venue allowed the magazine to accommodate additional sponsors, vendors, and attendees—6,000 in total.
The magazine also increased the number of free classes—on topics like decorating and beauty tips—and created a consultation area where attendees could meet with interior designers one-on-one. Additional sponsors, such as Paul Mitchell, set up a beauty bar offering free blowouts.
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Domino Magazine |
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| FRESH FACE 10.10.07 11:46 AM |
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Baker Makes Fashionable Sweets for Corporate Clients
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 | Sarah Magid uses organic ingredients.
Photo: Noah Sheldon for BizBash |
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The Accidental Baker: After studying fine arts at Sarah Lawrence College and accessory design at F.I.T., Sarah Magid spent 10 years as an accessories designer, dreaming up shoes for J.Crew, Tommy Hilfiger, and Coach. In her spare time, she channeled her artistic energy into baking, often bringing homemade organic cakes to the office, which won over her fashion-forward colleagues. “Word got around, and fashion companies would either order from a fancy bakery or have me make it,” she says.
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Target, Domino Magazine, Marc Jacobs |
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| EVENT INTELLIGENCE 06.15.07 10:45 AM |
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Who's Really Going Green?
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Heather Henderson has set an ambitious goal. As the operations manager for Cisco Systems' "Networkers at Cisco Live," a 10,000-head annual user conference, Henderson already has plenty on her plate: The conference packs in roughly 500 educational sessions, a trio of networking and entertainment evenings, and a trade show with more than 150 exhibitors. That's not stopping her, though, from forging ahead with a plan to make nearly every aspect of the conference—from paper to electricity to food—environmentally friendly by 2009.
"This year, we're moving to be more green," she says of Cisco's five-day program, which the network equipment manufacturer holds in a different city each summer. "We're taking small steps." Some of those steps include working with the caterer to provide biodegradable plates and utensils and saving paper by printing handouts only when users request them—and, in those cases, printing on recycled paper with soy inks.
"It's a pretty aggressive undertaking," she says, acknowledging that although awareness of eco-friendliness is up, many meeting and event pros aren't yet making the leap from awareness to action. "People are changing their behavior to some extent, but not to the extent it needs to be to make a huge impact."
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Going Green, Cisco, Environmental Media Association, Oscars, Domino Magazine, Prudential, Designers & Agents, Sundance |
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