| EVENT REPORT 11.04.09 12:18 PM |
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Library Lions Takes a Page From Venue With Paper Decor
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 | Recycled paper and living vines at Library Lions
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A crowd of 500, including Billy Crudup, Leighton Meester, and Barbara Walters, arrived at the New York Public Library's annual Library Lions benefit on Monday night. When it was time for dinner, guests made their way into the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, where the recycled materials and living plants came together in the paper-inspired decor.
Under the direction of New York Public Library events coordinator Emily Neidhardt and its event team, designer David E. Monn reinvented the venue for the seventh year in a row. "I always try to find a route of some integrity to base every event on, and this year I kept thinking of the paper in all of the books," said Monn. "When we sat down in the very begining [of planning], we wanted to be very careful about the tone and the message that was sent through the decor. It's always been beautiful, glamourous, and elegent, but I wanted it to maintain those elements without looking out of step with the times."
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| EVENT REPORT 11.06.08 11:10 AM |
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Library Lions Roar With White Decor and Preserved Fall Foliage
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Edward Albee, Ashley Bryan, Nora Ephron, and Salman Rushdie each received honors at the New York Public Library’s annual Library Lions benefit Monday night. Helping the literati celebrate were M.C. Toni Morrison, a slew of high-profile guests, and a seasonal decor that transformed the Humanities and Social Sciences Library into an autumnal dining room covered in an early frost.
In stark contrast to last year’s dark, reading-room atmosphere, designer David E. Monn created a white, fall dining room using preserved oak leaves and yards and yards of white linen. Massive white lampshades hung from the ceiling and 8- by 8-foot mirrors framed in the white oak leaves blocked the room’s windows. One of the only incorporated elements not sheathed in white was the lofted stage. Brown leaves stuck to the stage walls created a woody hedge for the speakers to look down from. The smell of thousands of leaves, combined with that of the old books, heightened the room’s air of academia.
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 3:22 PM |
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New York's Top Benefits 2008
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 | The Met's Costume Institute benefit
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1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit
“Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” will be the theme of this year’s most anticipated night for fashion and social types, presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vogue on May 5. The gala will celebrate the Met’s superhero fashion exhibit, with honorary chair Giorgio Armani joining co-chairs George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Anna Wintour. The Met’s Nina Diefenboch, Ashley Potter, and Kristin McDonald will return to plan the event along with Vogue’s Stephanie Winston-Wolkoff.
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| EVENT REPORT 11.07.07 5:31 PM |
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Library Gathers 10 Years' Worth of Library Lions
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 | Red lampshades set the tone for dinner in the Rose Reading Room.
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For 10 years, the New York Public Library has celebrated luminaries in fields ranging from literature, history, and science to the visual and performing arts at its Library Lions benefit. The institution marked the decade anniversary with an event on Monday night toasting four new Lions (Martin Scorsese, Tom Stoppard, Jhumpa Lahiri, and John Hope Franklin) and assembling many of the 40 previous honorees.
The evening included a cocktail hour in Astor Hall, a dinner and program in the library's majestic Rose Main Reading Room, and, for the first time in the event's history, the Young Lions gala, a dance party for supporters of the organization in their 20s and 30s.
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