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EVENT REPORT   11.10.04 12:00 AM PRINT | SEND TO A FRIEND |
Met Entertains Guests on the Nile
At the “Glamour on the Nile” benefit, guests got to taste ancient Egypt—and some Dewar’s, too.
No, the Nile ain’t just a river in Egypt—a miniature, man-made version of it also runs through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Sackler wing, and it was the backdrop for the Young Friends of the Met’s fall benefit underwritten by Dolce & Gabbana, called “Glamour on the Nile.”
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At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Glamour on the Nile" benefit, Frost bathed the Temple of Dendur in fiery red and orange lighting. -
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Glamour on the Nile" benefit, Frost bathed the Temple of Dendur in fiery red and orange lighting.
Scharff Weisberg projected old films of archeological footage from the 1920's against the space's large, blank east wall. -
Scharff Weisberg projected old films of archeological footage from the 1920's against the space's large, blank east wall.
Restaurant Associates catered the northern African- and Middle Eastern-inspired all-dessert menu, including baklava and ultra-rich truffle-filled chocolates. -
Restaurant Associates catered the northern African- and Middle Eastern-inspired all-dessert menu, including baklava and ultra-rich truffle-filled chocolates.
The name of co-sponsor Dolce & Gabbana was featured prominently on a gobo-lit wall at the party entrance. -
The name of co-sponsor Dolce & Gabbana was featured prominently on a gobo-lit wall at the party entrance.
   
Young Friends of the Met “Glamour on the Nile” fall benefit
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, 11.04.04, 9 PM onward

Catering Catering by Restaurant Associates
Lighting Frost Lighting
Music
Projection Scharff Weisberg
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guests in gilded armbands and Cleopatra-style flowing gowns (or little black dresses, for the less theme-driven in the crowd) grooved to upbeat music by DJ David Cheng adjacent to the Temple of Dendur—an ancient temple reassembled in the Met just as it was on the banks of the Nile around 15 B.C.—which glowed under rich, fiery red and orange lighting. Scharff Weisberg projected old films of archeological footage from the 1920’s against the space’s large, blank east wall for a cool, flickering, vintage movie-palace look.

Restaurant Associates catered the northern African- and Middle Eastern-inspired all-dessert menu—including baklava and ultra-rich truffle-filled chocolates—to make sure there was more in guests’ bellies than abundant scotch cocktails from Dewar's, one of the evening’s sponsors.

Alesandra Dubin

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