Decor

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.

XO laptops replaced flowers as centerpieces in the dining room, flashing images of bouquets and alerting diners to their next course.

One million flowers blanketed the walls of Christian Dior's July show during Paris Fashion Week. The Bureau Betak-event included a room covered with red roses.

The evening's color scheme—which appeared on its step-and-repeat—was gold, black, and white.

The gala honored 1,000 New World Symphony (N.W.S.) alumni. On the step-and-repeat, the names of all of those alumni comprised the N.W.S. logo.

The menu was printed on circular cards. Prepared by Thierry's Catering, courses included chilled watermelon gazpacho, bone-in Colorado lamb, and saffron-risotto cake. Dessert was a "chocolate piano cake" layered with clementine parfait.

Shiraz designed spring-like floral arrangements. Elements included moss, white phalaenopsis orchids, and green hydrangeas.

Additional decor included hanging floral installations made up of white flowers, moss, and driftwood.

Actor Malcolm McDowell served as the M.C. for the evening's concert. The concert featured performances from five New World Symphony alumni, as well as a surprise appearance from the symphony's co-founder and artistic director, Michael Tilson Thomas. The evening also featured entertainment from Michael Andrew and the Atomic Big Band.

Champagne chilled in bowls reminiscent of birds' nests, made from foraged organic materials.

Wooden chairs in a rustic style contrasted with tabletops punctuated by refined golden details like taper candle holders and anemone-like objects.

In a sustainable—and eye-catching—detail, the event's escort cards were edible: Each consisted of a chocolate mint circle, an edible flower, and the guest’s name and table.

Backing the rustic wood-fronted DJ booth was a wall of greenery, decorated with framed botanical art.

Patina servers carried craft cocktails that included ingredients from nature, as well as organic garnishes such as flowers. For instance, “La Mariposa” was a tequila Collins with chamomile-infused tequila, lavender simple syrup, lime juice, and soda water. “El Lobo” was an Old Fashioned with tequila, agave, and orange bitters, garnished with orange twists.

Guests posed in front of a mossy step-and-repeat-style backdrop, where branches and plants created three-dimensional visual interest.

A “living garden” station included glass bowls with black pepper and quinoa-feta soil, held together by pureed fig, and preserved lemon-dipped baby hearts of romaine. The station also featured a glass centerpiece with herb-citrus marinated baby beets, carrots, scallions, and baby radishes in soil made from dried fruit, nuts, pumpernickel, pumpkin seeds, dried Porcini mushrooms, olive paste, and hazelnut oil. Another nature-inspired offering at the event was a roasted mushroom “forest” with kale pesto ground with cut wheatgrass, all presented in baby flower pots.

Flowers also subtly decorated a dessert tower display, where options included liquid chocolate s’mores, served on a stick; liquid raspberry peanut butter s’mores; and more. At a doughnut station, a server stood by to slice the confections and make ice cream sandwiches using three flavors of ice cream—held in flower-decorated ice vases.

La Tavola Fine Linen Rental hosted its new collection release party at the Lombardi House in Los Angeles in April. There, the linen company joined with decor and design partners Found Vintage Rentals, Casa de Perrin, and Louloudi Design, which created the florals that complemented a dramatic ombre look at a long table.

Be Inspired PR hosted and produced a social event showcase at L.A.’s Hudson Loft in March. Foxtail Florals’ designs decorated a lounge area from Couture Events meant to riff on a "fancy" theme.

At Be Inspired's "Tassels & Tastemakers" event, flowers from the Hidden Garden decorated a lounge and hanging dessert display designed by A Good Affair.

Vines trailed from the hanging display, and sprays of vibrant florals on the hanging shelves complemented the colors of detailed one-bite desserts from Beverly's Bakery.

In March, Russell Harris Event Group produced a Fox party to celebrate the 100th episode of New Girl. Squat arrangements of monochromatic yellow blooms popped against tabletops.

At Rachel Zoe's Zoeasis party in Palm Springs, California, during Coachella's first weekend in April, oversize desert flowers in bright hues topped bars and other surfaces in the open-air party space.

For an event known as the Retreat at Palm Springs' Korakia Pensione during Coachella's first weekend, a long rustic table was set with bohemian touches like blooms in metallic vases topping trays.

Floral walls have been a popular photo backdrop on the Coachella party circuit. A lush and vibrant pink wall was set up at the Amazon Style Code Live Soiree at the Retreat.

Bronson van Wyck of Van Wyck & Van Wyck designed a floral wall behind various auction items for the Foundation Fighting Blindness World Gala at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street in April.

At the de Young Museum’s “Bouquets to Art” annual design showcase in San Francisco, florists created arrangements inspired by pieces in the museum’s permanent collection.

At a press preview for the Sugar Paper and Target office collection at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Los Angeles in April, the brands showed off new products in a feminine space decorated with pastel spring blooms in simple glass vessels.

At the American Cancer Society’s Discovery Ball in Chicago in April, enormous spherical floral centerpieces topped tables—held in clear glass vessels so as not to disrupt guests' sight lines.

In February, World Kitchen took over a New York City townhouse and transformed it into a showcase of its products for influencers and bloggers. Alongside decor made from kitchenware, ranunculus in shades of red and pink decorated mixed-metallic tabletops.

Urban Decay hosted an event at Disneyland in April to celebrate the brand’s Alice in Wonderland collection for the upcoming Through the Looking Glass Disney movie. Colorful blooms decorated a table set for a tea party with fancy china, and decorated hedging and topiaries alongside it.

The multicolored arrangements in red and purple added dimension alongside the heavily patterned china. Teapots, books, and clocks also tied into the Alice in Wonderland theme.

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