Decor

Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spas relocated its New York flagship in January to a larger site on Fifth Avenue. Within the 21,000-square-foot facility, which occupies two floors atop the Ferragamo building, is a 2,500-square-foot penthouse terrace with a rooftop garden. This section is available for events and holds as many as 75 people.

Clear umbrellas and glittering beads hung from the ceiling in the spring area. The sound of falling rain played in the background.

Hundreds of balloons from Balloon Trix hung from the ceiling during the V.I.P. dinner. The space changed colour with each course, starting with blue, morphing to pink for the main course, changing to orange for dessert, and ending in red.

Todd Events made a wedding held inside a large barn in Aspen seem more intimate with two tall signature bars and scattered seating and food station vignettes. Hanging glass globes appeared to lower the ceilings.

A sleek black structure hung from the ceiling along the perimeter of the Hyundai space, touching down to the floor only along the back wall.

Lincoln defined its space on the floor of the Javits Center with a partial wall perforated with a pattern made from its logo.

An enormous white circle brought attention to an Infiniti car display, and white walls with cutouts gave people walking the floor a preview of the model on display.

BMW defined its place on the floor at the Javits center with a large white slab hanging over its cars.

On July 28, some 1,200 guests headed out to the Watermill Center in the Hamptons for the art organization’s annual benefit, one of the season’s biggest draws for philanthropists. Inside the dinner tent a chandelier positioned over the dance floor was made up of plastic recycling bags and pink fabric streamers.

On June 22, the Chicago Botanic Garden celebrated its 40th anniversary at the annual Summer Dinner Dance. For the tent, designer William Heffernan of HMR Design Group created what he called "an impressionistic painting of a pink rose garden." The tent had a color scheme of raspberry, red, and white, with thousands of roses in different shades of pink.