Design Foundry used silver cooking utensils along with pots, pans, and platters to adorn the backdrop for the stage.
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RJ Whyte Productions reworked the layout of the room to accommodate the larger dance floor while still providing enough seating and linear square footage of buffets to keep lines to a minimum. Design Foundry also lowered the height of the food pavilions to allow guests to see further across the space than in the past.
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Projection screens above the dance floor showcased photos from the Faces of the Industry competition held during the weeks leading up to the event. Photographers visited area restaurants and submitted pictures of the food, chefs, and ambiance.
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To increase space on the dance floor, event producer Roger Whyte moved the DJ booth to the far edge and elevated DJ Neekola within a geometric light wall.
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Despite the expanded dance floor, guests still spilled over onto the carpeted area for dancing.
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One Eight Distilling debuted its new gin at the party in a Gnome's Water cocktail along with cucumber, lavender syrup, and lime juice.
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Absolut Elyx vodka also debuted a new cocktail at the event made from lychee liqueur, basil leaves, edible flowers, and sparkling soda.
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A food pavilion sponsored by the Embassy of Peru served a strawberry ginger cocktail mixed with Pisco 100, a Peruvian liquor.
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The Peru pavilion also served a fava bean and giant corn salad with shrimp, aji panca, and micro cilantro.
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Heineken photographers snapped pictures of guests throughout the night and used them to create a collage as the night progressed.
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EventsDC used graffiti art to make its logo stand out in its sponsor lounge.
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Citi Open returned as a sponsor with a red, white, and blue lounge and its signature tennis ball decor in wire buckets on the tables and adorning the base of the coffee tables.
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Citi Open opted for picnic-style fare like ham and Brie sandwiches, turkey on focaccia, with small bags of kettle chips and crudités for its lounge area.
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Meat was the name of the game at the Argentinian pavilion with options like duck confit empanadas, veal loin, and roasted kid goat with garlic olive oil wrapped in bacon (pictured).
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The Chilean pavilion served made-to-order nitrogen lime ice cream topped with fresh strawberries and blueberries.
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Liquor sponsor Barrelhound, a blend between scotch and whiskey, created a summer cocktail mixing its spirit with Campari, grapefruit juice, and grapefruit cordial served with a single ice cube.
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New Amsterdam vodka's branded ice luge had constant traffic throughout the night.
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Inspired by the ceramics of South African artist Ruan Hoffmann and murals by Rebecca Rebouche, interior designer Alexis Givens created a moonlight feast setting for Anthropologie with a ceiling covering made from bright blue-painted recycled plastic bottles.
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Michael C. Fina's look featured luxe black and gold settings on a glass tabletop.
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Originally set designers, Lydia Marks and Lisa Frantz looked to their favorite period—1940s Hollywood glamour—for inspiration in creating the New York Design Center's vignette. A black-and-white forced perspective image served as the backdrop, while a large chandelier by Arteriors illuminated the space. Bright peacocks by Global Views hung out in the corner.
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New York City-based design team Dransfield & Ross said the zany style inspiration for Sunbrella's tableau came from the 1967 film Casino Royale. Ornate couture chandeliers popped against the fabric company's graphic stripe patterns.
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The area sponsored by Ralph Lauren Home highlighted the brand's paint collection with paint cans filled with colorful blooms as centerpieces, paint-dipped wooden stirrers as place cards, and drop cloths and paint swatches as wall decor.
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Stacy Garcia designed a modern floral fantasy with layers of wallpaper from the new Paper Muse Collection for York Wallcoverings.
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Inspired by the Brutalist movement, in which concrete dominated, furnishings company Arteriors' dining vignette featured repeated geometric and abstract organic forms with rough textures and a dark palette.
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Designed by world-renowned artist Hunt Slonem, Kravet Inc.'s vignette featured bright paintings of exotic animals and tropical plant life.
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Orange Decor: Oscars
The Academy's Governors Ball featured table linens and carpeting in rustic orange hues to complement the historical Hollywood vibe, proving that orange might really be the new black.
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Orbs: Grammys
An eight-foot-tall manzanita tree with hanging orbs filled with candles, flowers, and succulents greeted guests at the Grammy Foundation’s V.I.P. reception, which was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on February 5. Elite Productions International designed the floral decor.
Photo: Cynthia Halverson
The 2006 Screen Actors Guild awards gala in Los Angeles had a striking but simple look from event designer Stanlee Gatti, with bunches of upside-down calla lillies hanging overhead. White furnishings were arranged in lounge-like formations.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
The Women's Wear Daily Beauty Summit in 2013 had a sleek, all-white design from Shiraz Events. Guests sat in clear Miro chairs at communal tables topped with white linens and simple birch vases holding cobble moss balls.
Photo: Sean Smith
A tunnel with dramatic lighting connected the cocktails space to the dining room. Since guests would quickly pass through the space, lighting was a cost-efficient way to provide decor.
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The dining room seated 4,000 guests. Sixteen screens lining the perimeter of the room gave all guests a close-up view of the stage, videos, and other elements of the program.
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Guests entered the event through a giant camera lens, alluding to the portraits used throughout the decor and program.
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A giant birthday card allowed guests to jot down their wishes for the museum on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
Photo: Ryan Emberley
Fever
Fever launched in 2013 and is currently live in New York and Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona in Spain, with London launching soon. The app creates a personalized list of things to do based on the user's interests and the friends and trendsetters they follow. Fever provides “tastemaker intel” based on partnerships with trendsetters in each city who allow the app to show where they are going and what they are doing. As users purchase tickets and attend events through the app, the system learns their preferences and customizes suggestions based on those past behaviors. As of February the app has more than one million users worldwide.
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