Lounge Furniture Rentals in Toronto
Tired of the all-white leather look? Leslee Bell of Decor & More is creating lounge areas with rental furniture that incorporates textured fabrics such as suede, chenille, herringbone, and wide whale corduroy, along with throw pillows featuring stripes, abstract patterns, and animal prints.
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Vintage China Rentals in Toronto
Vintage China Hire offers an eclectic mix of vintage and antique tableware for events of as many as 120 people. Vintage China Hire has also partnered with Loic Gourmet to offer catered afternoon tea packages for a minimum of 12 people.
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Rustic Rentals in Toronto
Contemporary Furniture Rentals has a variety of items ideal for pulling off a rustic look, including barrel stave chandeliers, coffee and cocktail tables made from reclaimed wood, and its new Farmhouse dining chairs (pictured).
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Modular Staging Systems in Washington
In an effort to prevent large staging and exhibit structures from ending up in landfills, Arlington, Virginia-based design firm Beth Singer Design has developed modular staging systems that can be reused, reconfigured, and resized. The portable, lightweight frames are easily customized with a variety of wrinkle-free fabric skins.
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San Francisco-Themed Centerpieces
Event planning company Well Rehearsed offers its ready-made Streets of San Francisco centerpiece collection for rent or purchase. The 10 reusable designs in the line incorporate some of San Francisco’s most iconic landmarks, imagery, and neighborhoods.
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Media Display Rentals in San Francisco
Blueprint Studios rents a variety of modern display furnishings engineered to contain the latest technology, including media towers, coffee tables, and bars fit with LCD displays. The company’s Museo collection also includes its new iPad station that can be branded and customized.
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Vintage Rentals in San Diego
Rental company Archive Rentals has a showroom in San Clemente offering vintage items, handmade furnishings, and antiques for events. The company’s vintage Western- and camp-themed rentals (think reclaimed wood tables, picnic linens, horse tack, canoes, and retro Airstream trailers) are ideal for summer events.
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Floral Design in San Diego
Searching for modern-looking, green-minded centerpieces? Britton Neubacher-Caligure of Tend Living often eschews florals in favor of succulents, air plants, and cacti, to create organic-looking arrangements. Neubacher-Caligure also offers how-to workshops.
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Portable Pop-Up Rentals in Scottsdale
Scottsdale-based company BizBox offers solar-powered, portable pop-up buildings that can be used as mobile showrooms, food shops, retail stores, or tradeshow display centers. The sleek units can be purchased or leased, and feature glass walls, display panels, and a wraparound deck, all of which can be set up in about 20 minutes. The newest model features full-glass siding.
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Lamp Rentals in Scottsdale
The new SculptLamps from Scottsdale-based SculptWare can work as centerpieces or cocktail-table accents. Available to rent in two sizes—14 inch, $45, or 30 inch, $65—the lamps include remote-controlled LEDs that can glow in 13 colors.
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LED-Lit Dance Floors in Arizona
Available to rent for events in Arizona starting at $9,000, Just Light That offers pressure-sensitive interactive LED-lit floors in sizes up to 24 by 32 feet that can be synced to music. The floors can also display logos, animated images, scrolling text, or static branding.
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Modular Fabric Panels in Pennsylvania
Lititz, Pennsylvania-based production and scenic goods company Atomic Design has introduced its modular Buule and Laser panels. The 5-foot-wide fabric panels have zippers so you can customize the length and width of your backdrop. For easy shipping, a 50- by 30-foot drape fits in a 24-inch cardboard box that weighs 70 pounds.
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Unique Table Rentals in Orlando
Add a rock ’n’ roll vibe with tabletops from Max King Events that are made to look like acoustic and electric guitars. The tops can be used on 30- or 42-inch stands. The handcrafted tabletops are available in 12 designs. Prices start at $85.
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Floral Design in New York
The Little Glass Slipper is a new floral shop in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, owned by Cary Pereyra, who creates arrangements that offer a dose of aromatherapy. Her creations can include botanicals like echinacea for a weak immune system or mood-boosting lavender for seasonal depression.
Photo: Courtesy of the Little Glass Slipper
Clear Table Rentals in New York
Taylor Creative Inc. is now carrying Kartell’s invisible coffee table. A match for Louis Ghost chairs, the sleek Lucite tables rent for $150 each, and there are 16 available. Also new to Taylor’s inventory: Kartell’s invisible dining tables.
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Graffiti-Inspired Furniture Rentals in Miami
The new graffiti-inspired “Tag It” line from AFR Event Furnishings includes items such as leather sofas, chairs, acrylic tables, and ottomans that guests can permanently leave their mark on with Sharpies. The furniture items, which are for sale only, can be displayed in the office post-event.
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Colorful Plate Rentals in Miami
Atlas Party Rental carries a variety of new brightly colored dishes that can add a splash to tabletops. The eye-catching purple-and-turquoise Luxe charger (pictured) rents for $8.
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Unique Centerpiece Design in Los Angeles
Little World Design specializes in sculptural, botanical objects and installations. Owners Heather Pando and Manuel Acosta favor long-lasting materials, like branches, seed pods, feathers, moss, stones, linen, and even real butterfly wings.
Photo: Manuel Acosta
Unique Table Rentals in Los Angeles
Holo-Walls offers interactive LED liquid tabletops filled with pressure-sensitive fluids that are designed to fit on 30-inch round cocktail tables. The illuminated, chrome-edged tiles are available to rent from $100 each; matching Liquid Fusion dance-floor tiles are also available, starting at $50 per tile.
Photo: Courtesy of Holo-Walls L.L.C.
Vintage China Rentals in Los Angeles
The Vintage Table Company offers vintage china, glassware, and flatware sourced from estates, thrift stores, and flea markets, for a completely mismatched tabletop look.
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Unique Table Rentals in Los Angeles
Town and Country Event Rentals now offers the Cielo Blanco 4- by 8-foot dining table, available with custom fabric insets.
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Linen Rentals in Las Vegas
California-based La Tavola Fine Linen Rental has opened its first Las Vegas showroom. The company offers 11 linen collections, as well as coordinating pieces, like napkins and seat cushions.
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Rustic Tabletop Rentals in Houston
For place settings that tie into the rustic, all-natural trend, rent Swift & Company’s 500 new Capri wood chargers for $7 per piece. Crafted from reclaimed wood and made by hand in the company’s Houston workshop, the chargers’ patinas and distress marks make for a striking tabletop element.
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Lounge Rentals in Dallas
Event rental company Suite 206’s new Savile Row collection—from $55 to $350 for individual pieces—is inspired by the London street famous for its bespoke men’s tailoring shops. The masculine-looking furniture collection includes pieces such as the Wayly chair (pictured) and the tufted Ted settee in gray, silver, and black.
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Rustic Rentals in Boston
New England Country Rentals is a full-service Boston-based event rental company. The inventory includes bars, lounge furniture, china, flatware, chairs, glassware, and vintage decor items, but the company specializes in rustic custom-made tables, chairs, and benches.
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For its XO Cafe Noir party in 2011, Patrón tapped Abel McCallister Designs to create lamps made from empty liquor bottles and fringed lampshades.
Photo: Angel Tagudin
As part of Brooklyn’s Northside Festival in June, whiskey brand Jameson hosted the Black Barrel Lounge, where guests could enjoy music from indie artists and get the chance to experience a demonstration by Master Cooper (aka barrel maker) Ger Buckley. Accordingly, the space was decorated with chandeliers made from deconstructed flame-charred Jameson Black barrels.
Photo: Courtesy of Jameson
In June, Target celebrated the launch of its fashion and home accessories collection with charity organization Feed by hosting a rustic-Americana-themed dinner party in Brooklyn. The lighting fixtures above the bar in the dinner tent were crafted from Feed U.S.A. for Target plates and cups.
Photo: Nilaya Sabnis
At a private event hosted by Adidas during the N.B.A.'s All-Star Weekend in 2012, Night Vision Entertainment incorporated the footwear brand's Superstar shoes into an overhead display. To hang the installation, producers attached suspension cords to laces that were tied around the bottom of the shoes.
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For Z100's All Access Lounge, a preshow festival for the 2011 Jingle Ball concert, presenting sponsor Coca-Cola incorporated subtle branding into the Hammerstein Ballroom's decor with a hanging installation of Coke cans.
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In June, jewelry company Stella & Dot teamed up with liquor brand Midori to host a happy hour event on the rooftop of the London West Hollywood. Small shelves were built into the press wall in order to display emerald green accessories from the line alongside the green-colored booze.
Photo: Courtesy of Midori
In June, Skyy Vodka hosted Skyy and Sea, the official opening event to New York’s Governors Ball Music Festival, aboard the Hornblower Infinity yacht. The nautical theme was reflected in the event’s step-and-repeat: White shelves held bottles of vodka and branded lifesavers.
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Also at the Skyy and Sea event, guests could spin a prize wheel to win items like a hat, a bikini, or sunglasses. The pointers on the wheel were made from empty Skyy bottles.
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At a Vogue Eyewear party held in Los Angeles in March to fete the brand’s spring summer campaign, shades were frozen inside blocks of ice along with flowers, making for striking arrangements on bar tops.
Photo: Courtesy of Vogue Eyewear
Dubbed the Dramatically Different Party, skincare brand Clinique's June 18 bash at New York’s 620 Loft & Garden celebrated its iconic moisturizer. As guests entered, they encountered a hallway lined with more than 4,000 bottles of the 45-year-old lotion.
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At a Toronto event marking SodaStream’s partnership with Kraft, held in June, a custom step-and-repeat was made out of shelves filled with artfully arranged products and logos.
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In honor of Barbie’s 50th anniversary, Mattel created a real-life version of the doll’s Malibu Dream House where repeating rows of the iconic toy formed an eye-catching wall.
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Earlier this year in New Orleans, Jes Gordon designed a Super Bowl party for M&Ms where highboy tables displayed arrangements of roses and eucalyptus nestled in vases filled with the chocolate candies.
Photo: George Long
At an EBay event in 2009, the centerpiece of the room was a giant chandelier that comprised more than 1,200 items found on the online auctioneer’s Web site.
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During the 2010 Super Bowl, Bridgestone stacked its tires to create highboys at the ESPN the Magazine Next Big Weekend party.
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At the Marfa Film Festival in Texas in 2010, the We Came In Peace-designed Café Bustelo Filling Station was marked by the coffee brand's yellow-and-red aluminum cans. In addition to using the cans as planters for cacti, the designers crafted them into chandeliers and lighting installations.
Photo: Courtesy of We Came in Peace
At Ecolab's client appreciation party at the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago in 2010, Kehoe Designs made a registration desk using the cleaning product company's soap dispensers and glass racks from restaurant dishwashers.
Photo: Ryan Sjostrom
Godiva is known for its annual chocolate-themed lounge at InStyle’s Golden Globes after-party, but in 2009 the chocolate brand made a bid for attention on Valentine’s Day with an over-the-top chocolate-covered suite inside New York’s Bryant Park Hotel. Envisioned by interior designer Jonathan Adler and interpreted in chocolate by event producer Larry Abel, the suite featured a lavish display of Godiva products including a mosaic of individual chocolates arranged beneath a glass-topped dining table.
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To celebrate the Shops at Target launch in May 2012, the retail giant hosted a party at the IAC Building in New York, for which designer David Stark suspended products from the various collections as decor. For example, doggie treats from Target collaborator Polka Dog Bakery were hung in a spiraled, chandelier-like installation.
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In 2008, when Showtime hosted the premiere party for the second season of The Tudors at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, the network made a big impression by covering the property's enormous rotunda in mesh vinyl. With a stone pattern and carefully placed windows that aligned with the building's, the fabric draping made the exterior look like a castle, while brightly colored polyfabric banners publicized the event and the show's cast.
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Renhaus Visualization Studio
Renhaus Visualization Studio builds virtual models of event designs and then captures the spaces with a virtual camera to create interactive tours. The company begins with a venue floor plan and then creates details such as the walls, floor, ceiling, decor elements, and lighting. “We use all real measurements so everything is to scale and then place everything as the client asks," said founder Chris Courtemanche. "It’s almost as if we are building it in real life.” Once the model is created, the company can either create a still 3-D rendering or place a virtual camera in the space to create an interactive tour, which allows the users to see a 360-degree view of the space. “When the image goes from still to motion, you start to feel more connected with the design,” Courtemanche said.
Rendering: Courtesy of Renhaus
Social Tables
In June, Social Tables added 3-D rendering capabilities to its floor plan design software. The product is self-service: users input a 2-D room diagram and room height and can also add photos, carpet textures, wallpaper, and other details, and the system creates a 3-D image in real time. “This can help hotels, caterers, and planners close more deals by helping the client visualize the event; it also helps to set expectations,” said Social Tables C.E.O. Dan Berger. The 3-D image can be shared as a link or embedded in a Web site.
Rendering: Courtesy of Social Tables
Floored
Floored generates 3-D models by scanning interior spaces with a camera with a laser-based range finder. The result is a 3-D model that users can navigate using their mouse. “This allows you to virtually tour an event space through the Web,” said founder Dave Eisenberg. The company is adding new functions, starting with tools that will be available in September to allow users to move furniture inside the space. Eisenberg said the system is ideal for venue owners who want to convey various ways their space can be configured, as well as for planners who want to communicate layouts to clients.
Rendering: Courtesy of Floored
