In September, Ben Bourgeois produced the inaugural celebration for Los Angeles's new contemporary art museum, the Broad. Laser-cut paper foldouts used as tabletop centerpieces were meant to represent the building's architecture.
In 2011, the opening of Chicago's Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Gold featured a 3,000-pound cake. Baker Buddy Valastro's enormous dessert had replicas of city landmarks, a mini deep-dish pizza, and the Rolls-Royce hood ornament. Forklift operators helped unload the cake from its delivery truck, and the setup process took 30 minutes.
In the Best Picture nominee, Boston Globe reporters try to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church. At The Newsroom Season 2 premiere party at Paramount in Los Angeles in July 2013, newsprint wallpaper covered a 480-foot-long, 8-foot-high perimeter wall.
HBO’s Golden Globes party had a "winter garden” theme that showed up in all-white flowers as well as projections and linens.
For the Oscars Governors Ball, Mark’s Garden used 10,000 white flowers, including calla lilies, gardenias, ranunculus, phalaenopsis orchids, and succulents.
People magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s official Screen Actors Guild Awards gala got a 1920s Hollywood theme. Decorating the party space were images from commercial artist of the period Batiste Madelna, as well as portraits from glamour photographer George Hurell.
This year’s Governors Ball had a retro look inspired by the caricature-covered walls of Sardi’s and Brown Derby restaurants. Decor for the night included more than 170 commissioned black and white drawings of current and historic Hollywood stars.
At Fox’s annual Golden Globes party, the look was influenced by the Art Deco period, with residential-style details such as wraparound sofas in neutral tones and chevron-patterned area rugs.
