| EVENT REPORT 10.25.06 12:00 AM |
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| Park Ball Plants Guests in the Woods |
| Using leaf projections, treelike set pieces, and fallen leaves, the Prospect Park Alliance produced the illusion of an outdoor forest setting inside the event’s tents. |
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| For the Prospect Park Alliance’s biennial ball, husband and wife team Mark and Jo Beth Ravitz (of Mark Ravitz Art & Design) took inspiration from the park’s tree-lined lanes to create theatrical scenery for the dinner tent. The pair covered the 12 tent poles with foam and Christmas lights and added layers of red, orange, yellow, and green felt to the tops to imitate trees. And on the grass floor of the tent, fallen leaves (collected from the park) littered the ground below each pole. The poles, set up in two rows of six, created a colonnade over the tables, and Scharff Weisberg projected red and amber leaf patterns over each piece and washed the ceiling with a dark blue. |
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 | | To decorate the dinner tent’s structural poles, the event’s designers created theatrical trees with felt tops and foam branches. |
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 | | Scharff Weisberg projected leafy patterns onto the ceiling of the tent in which cocktails and the silent auction took place. |
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 | | Elizabeth Porter Steisel of Berkman/LaForge Interiors, a member of the park’s board of directors, created the centerpieces. |
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Planned by the alliance’s director of fund-raising events, Jessie Betts, the black tie benefit for more than 600 guests raised about $620,000 for the expansive Brooklyn park’s woodlands and nature trails, and also presented the first Wilbur A. Levin award (for recognition of an individual who has made a positive impact on the alliance and the Brooklyn community) to Barbara McTiernan for her volunteer efforts and contribution to various organizations. Among the park supporters in attendance were Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz, parks and recreation commissioner Adrian Benepe, Congressman Major R. Owens, and actor John Turturro.
—Anna Sekula
Posted 10.25.06
Photos: Courtesy of Mark Ravitz (dinner tent), Paul Martinka (cocktail area, tabletop)
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