Décors

August 28, 2013

Ronen Rental’s chalkboard bar features chalkboard panels set in an aluminum frame. The bar comes in two sizes: six feet long and four feet long. Available to rent in South Florida, chalk is included. The company can also make custom stencils for easy personalization.

Photo: Courtesy of Ronen Rental

Pressed Cotton sells gray-washed wooden chalkboard boxes, from $19 each, that can be filled with plants or flowers and used as centerpieces. Have the boxes do double duty by using chalk to write table numbers on the side.

Photo: Courtesy of Pressed Cotton

Also available through Pressed Cotton are chalkboard tags, $3.50 each, which can be used as signage or place cards or can be hung from the neck of wine bottles to designate tables.

Photo: Courtesy of Pressed Cotton

To promote its first book, blog Design Sponge toured the West Coast in 2011. At a book signing in Los Angeles, guests could pose in front of—and draw on—a chalkboard backdrop created by event and styling production company Bash Please.

Photo: Rachel Thurston

For a corporate event held in one of the hotel kitchens at the Atlanta Hyatt, Steve Bales of Bold American Events & Catering built floor-to-ceiling chalkboard walls on which he personalized each guest’s apron by scrawling his or her name next to it.

Photo: Troy Kelly Studio

To build buzz for its latest product collaboration with charity organization Feed Projects, Target threw a rustic-Americana-theme dinner party underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in June. Freestanding chalkboard signs set up outside the open-air venue in Brooklyn Bridge Park helped guests find their way.

Photo: Nilaya Sabnis

Also at the Target event, chalkboard menus placed near the bar areas displayed the cocktail hour offerings.

Photo: Nilaya Sabnis

At the National Stationery Show in May, black-and-white stripes accented a stationery suite printed on a chalkboard-style background from Something Detailed.

Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash

Earlier this year at TEDActive, the official TED conference simulcast held in Palm Springs, TEDx planners from around the world expressed themselves on an interactive chalkboard wall.

Photo: Marla Aufmuth

The Southern-hospitality-infused welcome bash at the Engage! luxury-wedding business summit, held in June at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, featured a chalkboard map that outlined the various locations of the four-part event.

Photo: Andrew Henderson

Available to rent throughout California, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Lounge Appeal’s Beachwood Chalkboard table allows guests to doodle on the surface. The 2- by 4-foot table comes in 42-, 30-, and 18-inch-tall versions.

Photo: Courtesy of Lounge Appeal

In 2006 at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit, designer David Stark created towering hand-drawn sketches depicting New York scenes across more than 35,000 square feet of chalkboard. Guests could add to the work with bowls of chalk placed on the highboy tables throughout the cocktail area.

Photo: Susie Montagna

Ford at Bonnaroo

More than 80,000 music lovers gathered at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, from June 13 to 17. In the spirit of garage rock, Ford erected a garage in the middle of the festival for its Fiesta Garage. Bands like Maps & Atlases and the Rubens performed while attendees lounged in mismatched armchairs. Also available were free customized T-shirts, iPads to browse the Internet, and a photo booth station.

Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash

Moët & Chandon's 270th Anniversary

At the evening affair at Pier 59 Studios, the centerpiece was a Moët & Chandon golden cage designed by Olivier Massart of La Mode en Image. Built in solid gold metal to symbolize a tennis court— Moët & Chandon is the official champagne of the U.S. Open, and the event took place on the tournament's first night—the structure housed a black box Moët coffret. About an hour after the event began, triumphant music accompanied the cage lifting to unveil the structure inside. Desserts prepared by French caterer Potel & Chabot were unveiled from beneath the coffret in a plume of smoke.

Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Moet & Chandon

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Installation

Massive rainbow-hued inflatables decorated the pool at the Mondrian South Beach. FriendsWithYou, Paul Kasmin Gallery, and Paper magazine collaborated on the installation with Morgans Hotel Group. The installation will remain at the hotel through January 15.

Photo: World Red Eye

XIV Sessions: Art Basel

Hundreds of colorful replicas of the rubber duckies painted with Mijares’s artwork floated in the pool at Hyde Beach.

Photo: Dylan Rives

'Harper's Bazaar' and MCM Collection Launch

At an afternoon event from MCM and Harper's Bazaar December 4 at Soho Beach House's Tiki Garden, cocktails were served with quirky paper glasses that guests could then wear. The offbeat visage was used in oversize form as a prop in photo booths and was printed on tote bags.

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Soho Beach House

De Nolet Presented by Ketel One Vodka

At Ketel One vodka's De Nolet event, guests watched as New York-based artist Shaun El C. Leonardo staged a wrestling performance in a ring strewn with rose petals.

Photo: Ian Witlen for BizBash

Colette at Alchemist "Art Drive-Thru"

Five roller girl "carhops" wearing custom Chrome Hearts skates offered full service to customers daily, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., via four menu kiosks. (There were two stations visitors could drive up to, one for those on foot, and one counter.) The installation took three weeks to build and was designed by Miami-based architect Rene Gonzalez.

Photo: John Parra/Getty Images for Colette

“Rockodile,” a site-specific art piece by Mark A. Reigelman II, was staged at Lacoste's Lincoln Road boutique. The piece was inspired by the the clothing brand's crocodile logo. Guests were invited to see the piece at a private in-store brunch Sunday.

Photo: Courtesy of Tara, Ink