Z100 & Coca-Cola's All Access Lounge

As a subtle way to add more branding to the Hammerstein Ballroom, presenting sponsor Coca-Cola fashioned a chandelier from its aluminum bottles.
Photo: Jeeyun Lee for BizBash

The 2011 In Style and Warner Brothers party got a luxe, library-inspired look. This year, designer Thomas Ford is expected to give the party an underwater look and feel.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography

The world’s first Nobu Hotel, set to open late this year in Vegas, is being developed by Nobu Hospitality, with partners including chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro, and Meir Teper.
Rendering: The Rockwell Group
Harris Theater Gala

On June 26, the Paris Opera Ballet performed Giselle at the Harris Theater. Drawing on the ethereal, ghostly set of the famous ballet, designer Bill Heffernan brought a moonlit-forest look to the tent that housed the ensuing gala in Millennium Park. The “dining space was filled and overwhelmed with gigantic transparent suspended cubes, projected with provencale branch patterns, and hovering low over square dining tables,” he said. Ferns and white freesia decorated the table tops.
Photo: Robert Carl
Diffa Trend: Alternative Centerpieces

DESIGNLUSH's setting was an homage to 1970s fashion designer Paco Rabanne. Housed inside a golden pool cabana, the focal point of the look was a two-tiered, rectangular gold paillette chandelier commissioned from Le Lebow, the Paris firm that made the paillettes for Rabanne's mini dresses. The table displayed wine bottles coated in real gold using a process adapted from industrial use.
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Diffa Trend: Residential Design

Interior designer Libby Langdon's table for Liebherr showcased a chandelier made from wine bottles and filament bulbs. A lush centerpiece of greenery, succulents, and moss completed the homey style.
Photo: Ronnie Andren for BizBash
10. Nobu Hotel

Late this year, you can take your meeting to a big-name new space on the Strip: the world’s first Nobu Hotel, restaurant, and lounge. The new restaurant will be an 11,200-square-foot space with an East-meets-West look and feel. Bowed columns of bamboo will line the exterior, meant to resemble the structure of the traditional Japanese ikebana basket used for the art of flower arranging. Colorful, patterned private dining pods and leather-upholstered screens will wrap the dining room. A 15-person bar will be the focal point of the lounge and will include an oversize bowl hand carved from a single block of wood.
Rendering: The Rockwell Group

At the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, a collection of six marigold chandeliers filled the V.I.P. tent ceiling, each standing eight feet high and made from thousands of strands of silk marigolds in the brand's recognizable yellow shade.
Photo: Claire Barrett Photography

About 750 V.I.P. guests filled the India-inspired tent decked out in the brand's signature yellow hue.
Photo: Claire Barrett Photography

BrownHot Events partnered with Mille Fiori Floral Design to create an eight- by 20-foot paper flower backdrop for the V.I.P. tent bar.
Photo: Claire Barrett Photography

Each flower was hand made and comprised of custom-printed stock, crepe paper, and tissue paper.
Photo: Claire Barrett Photography

Various sizes of flowers, from three inches to three feet in diameter, combined in a loose pattern, creating a bold pop of color to the mostly white event space.
Photo: Claire Barrett Photography