Decor Stuff

With a color palette of aubergine, champagne, and chartreuse, this year's Governors Ball will be held in the Ray Dolby ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center directly following the Academy Awards telecast February 24. The centerpiece of the space will be an 18-foot gold Oscar.

A 120-foot chandelier will hang overhead in the ballroom.

A variety of seating configurations, with furniture from Lux Lounge EFR, will give the official Oscars after-party a more relaxed feel, and the warm aubergine hues will add an air of intimacy to space.

For the 20th consecutive year, Mark Held will create the floral decor for the Governors Ball, this year incorporating the aubergine and chartreuse of the event's overall color palette. One element has flowers designed to look as if they're growing out of the glass cocktail tables.

The blossoming cocktail tables will be paired with bar strools upholstered in a deep shade of purple.

Other tabletops will feature a mix of purple calla lilies, kale, artichokes, and fern shoots, with green anthurium and black ti leaves added to low arrangements. The flowers complement Resource One's linens, which include the aubergine circle ribbon taffeta.

Chefs Wolfgang Puck and Matt Bencivenga have devised a menu of passed hors d'oeuvres, cocktail platters, and small plates for this year's event. Items include spicy tuna tartare in a seasame miso cone with pickled ginger and bonito flakes, vegetable spring rolls, and Oscar-shaped smoked salmon with dill crème fraîche and caviar.

The Governors Ball will also offer a sushi and shellfish station as well as a plethora of desserts, like mango crumble and a "snowball"—a ginger meringue dome with cassis sorbet, yogurt whip, lavender macaron confetti, and blueberries.