THEMED DESIGN

Working under the direction of Sidney Frank Importing Company, which owns the American Harvest vodka brand, Event Creative designer Meredith Treinen brought an elegantly rustic look to the Ivy Room for the spirit's launch party. Decorative elements included fresh wheat in birch containers, blue hydrangeas in wood boxes, and votive-filled Mason jars.

Lighting cast leafy projections on the walls.

Treinen also brought in sisal carpets, chairs made of distressed wood, and rustic crates as coffee tables. On the white lounge furniture, pillows bore preppy patterns reminiscent of the Tory Burch style.

Tory Burch-like patterns also appeared on napkins at the American Cancer Society's April 28 ball, held at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel. Rishi Patel of HMR Design Group handled the decor.

Topiaries decorated the stage.

Hurricane glasses held candles at the center of each table.

Like the decor, the entertainment for the Primetime Emmy Awards' Governors Ball will match the theme. The American Heart Association had the same idea in 2006 when it put a model in a dress with a 30-foot-long skirt over the entrance to the New York Public Library.

Washing a space in red lights is a simple but effective statement, which is what Stoelt Productions did at New York's American Museum of Natural History for this year's Clio Awards.

To emulate the bright red color that marks a number of comic book superheroes, Sublime Catering served beef tartare with beet-dyed horseradish served in an heirloom tomato at Toronto's Rawstrip event in June.

Tall white trees surrounded by, and decorated with, candy canes, candy apples, and gingerbread men formed the festive decor at Capital C's 2009 holiday party in Toronto.

Exposed lighting adds to the color and the decor. At the Robin Hood Foundation's gala in 2003, event designer Avi Adler hung red tubular fluorescent lightbulbs over the cocktail area inside New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

The American Heart Association brought attention to their Go Red for Women campaign in New York with a giant red flower- and fabric-covered dome constructed with 2,500 rosebuds, aged vines, and hanging amaranths hung above a circular stage.