The Museum of Modern Art may be the current pride of Queens, but its 35th annual Party in the Garden benefit didn't change boroughs. For the second year, the event took over the Altman Building and the Metropolitan Pavilion, leaving its traditional home in MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden while the museum undergoes renovations.
This year's event, which was coordinated by the museum's special events department, honored former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, "for his outstanding leadership in New York City during a time of crisis." (Call it one more part of Rudy's post-September 11 makeover: He certainly never made his mark as a supporter of the arts—anyone remember the furor over the Brooklyn Museum of Art 's "Sensation" exhibit?—but MoMA received $65 million in capital support during his two terms.)
The venues weren't the only repeat performances of the event. Several vendors, including designer Bill Tansey of Tansey Design Associates, were back. In contrast to last year's stark black and white theme, Tansey created a silver and hot pink lounge in the Altman Building for the cocktail hour and after-dinner dance. Silver couches and banquettes were loaded with pink pillows and paired with hot pink cube-shaped stools. Pink gels covered the lights, giving the room a warm ambiance.
Over at Metropolitan Pavilion, dinner had a silver star theme. "It was inspired by Broadway," Tansey says. "It was silver, silver and more silver." Silver lamé tablecloths held unique centerpieces that used big, shallow glass bowls to hold silver star-shaped candles on top of clear gel that looked like ice.
Silver star-shaped menus, designed by Matthew Sporzynski of Couturier de Cardboard, listed Glorious Food's dinner selection for the evening: shrimp cocktail, chicken a la king,.phparagus, grilled tomatoes and New York cheesecake with a strawberry-rhubarb compote. Dinner entertainment included a special performance by the cast of Broadway's 42nd Street.
—Erika Rasmusson
Read about last year's party...
This year's event, which was coordinated by the museum's special events department, honored former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, "for his outstanding leadership in New York City during a time of crisis." (Call it one more part of Rudy's post-September 11 makeover: He certainly never made his mark as a supporter of the arts—anyone remember the furor over the Brooklyn Museum of Art 's "Sensation" exhibit?—but MoMA received $65 million in capital support during his two terms.)
The venues weren't the only repeat performances of the event. Several vendors, including designer Bill Tansey of Tansey Design Associates, were back. In contrast to last year's stark black and white theme, Tansey created a silver and hot pink lounge in the Altman Building for the cocktail hour and after-dinner dance. Silver couches and banquettes were loaded with pink pillows and paired with hot pink cube-shaped stools. Pink gels covered the lights, giving the room a warm ambiance.
Over at Metropolitan Pavilion, dinner had a silver star theme. "It was inspired by Broadway," Tansey says. "It was silver, silver and more silver." Silver lamé tablecloths held unique centerpieces that used big, shallow glass bowls to hold silver star-shaped candles on top of clear gel that looked like ice.
Silver star-shaped menus, designed by Matthew Sporzynski of Couturier de Cardboard, listed Glorious Food's dinner selection for the evening: shrimp cocktail, chicken a la king,.phparagus, grilled tomatoes and New York cheesecake with a strawberry-rhubarb compote. Dinner entertainment included a special performance by the cast of Broadway's 42nd Street.
—Erika Rasmusson
Read about last year's party...
At MoMA's Party in the Garden at Metropolitan Pavilion, Bill Tansey of Tansey Design Associates used shallow glass bowls as centerpieces and filled them with silver star-shaped candles on top of clear gel that looked like ice.
Tansey covered tables in silver lamé tablecloths, and Matthew Sporzynski of Couturier de Cardboard created silver star-shaped menus for each setting.
In the Altman Building, a chic silver and hot pink lounge was created for the cocktail hour with silver couches, pink pillows and paired with hot pink cube-shaped stools.
