Decor

January 8, 2015

The Washington National Opera Ball took over the ceremonial building at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in 2010. Event producer Sandi Hoffman of Sandi R. Hoffman Special Events transformed the lobby into a winter landscape with plush white carpets and white birch trees lining the hallway.

Photo: Tony Brown/imijphoto.com for BizBash

The Portlandia season 3 premiere party, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in December, played off the idea of Portland in winter with quirky displays of everyday objects suspended in ice.

Photo: Diane Bondareff/Invision for IFC

The Nature Conservancy of Canada celebrated its 50th anniversary gala in November at the Ritz-Carlton in Toronto, where planners created a wintery forest feel by lining the ballroom with living trees hung with candlelit lanterns.

Photo: Tom Sandler

Centerpieces at the Chef's Table were a woodsy display with birch branches, moss, ferns, succulents, and orchids.

Photo: World Red Eye

Toronto's Iceculture has created beaded curtains—made entirely of ice—for events, where it can divide a room or serve as an eye-catching backdrop.

Photo: Courtesy of Iceculture

Toronto marketing company Capital C hosted a holiday party in December 2011 with a "Naughty N'Ice" theme, featuring cocktails poured over dry ice, soup topped with nitrogen-frozen blueberries, and a cool chaise from Iceculture.

Photo: Emma McIntyre for BizBash

At Martha Stewart Weddings' 20th anniversary party, held at the Pierre hotel in New York in October 2014, Okamoto Studio carved half-shell ice sculptures, complete with frozen pearls, for the raw oyster serving station.

Photo: Carasco Photography

Chanel Couture Spring 2015

It took six months to make the 300 flowers that decorated the Chanel set. Each flower had its own "engine" and burst into full technicolor mechanical bloom after a model at the show's start applied a theatrical "splash" from a CC-branded watering can.

Photo: Olivier Saillant

Pandora hosted its first "Hearts of Today” honoree luncheon at the Montage Beverly Hills in November, where a decorative press wall had logos framed in purple roses set against lush hedging.

Photo: Stefanie Keenan

BuzzFeed Basecamp at Sundance

BuzzFeed also plied guests with spiked hot chocolate and so-called "BuzFeed Bites," which were snacks inspired by photos posted to its vertical BuzzFeed Food.

Photo: Macey J. Foronda/BuzzFeed

Moto X Lounge at Sundance Film Festival

New this year, the Park City Live Day Lounge had gifting and hospitality suites that showcased brands such as Motorola. In its Moto X lounge, which was papered in scenes of snow-covered tree trunks, the company invited celebrities to test out its new Natural Collection phones.

Photo: Courtesy of Park City Live Lounge

Indoor Skating

The bash featured four areas, each inspired by a different season. The winter-theme area featured an indoor skating rink crowned with strings of café lights. The portable, synthetic ice rink was supplied by Clowning Around & Celebration Authority. Guests were invited to skate.

Photo: Nakai Photography