Origins partnered with creative agency The dFm to host a launch event for the skincare brand's new product line the RitualiTea Collection on September 22 at Fort Gansevoort in New York. The event offered guests interactive installations based on the new line's scents, including an experiential Oolong-La flat lay station.
The event showcased a canopy of rose petals designed by floral artist Ruby Barber. The installation was surrounded by rose-tinted infinity mirrors.
The event also had a bar that served tea-infused cocktails with a backdrop that showcased products from the new RitualiTea Collection.
Made with Code, a nonprofit initiative from Google that works to inspire millions of girls to learn to code, hosted an event on September 20 at Milk Studios in New York that highlighted R&B duo Chloe and Halle, who are supporters of the "Change is Made with Code" campaign. The event offered non-alcoholic Be Mixed cocktails inspired by the singers.
The event, which was produced by PinPoint Productions, showcased colorful illustrations with messages promoting tolerance.
To showcase its new hotel room design, Marriott Hotels debuted an inverted room replica at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. The installation, which is on display through October 7, was designed to provide the illusion that items in the room were floating on the ceiling and walls. Guests could position themselves for photos that are rotated 90 degrees to provide an upside-down effect.
The 27th annual Headdress Ball took place September 17 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. In the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting, Marriott Hotels around the world displayed “Orlando Strong” posters signed by hotel staff, as part of the brand's #LoveTravels campaign. At the gala, these posters were displayed outside the ballroom entrance.
To go along with the gala's "Love" theme, the hotel created centerpiece hearts entirely of chocolate, with colorful cocoa-butter flames attached to simulate a burning heart and hollow chocolate spheres in various sizes at the base.
The Bacon & Lox Society, an interfaith celebration congregation, hosted a Full Circle Meal event on September 11 in McMichael Creek in eastern Pennsylvania. Gifts for the Good Life created mulberry paper scrolls featuring Native American symbols that served as the invitations; they were rolled and tied with a label, which was personalized for each guest. The scrolls were then nestled in mounds of live moss inside boxes.
A boat held Turkish towels, pashminas, natural bug repellent, and buckets of drinks.
