Table decor

The Tate Americas Foundation's artist’s dinner, which took place in May in New York, featured decor and architectural centerpieces by David Stark that were inspired by the sharp geometry and twisting shape of the Tate Modern’s new building, which was soon to open.

Revlon hosted its annual philanthropic luncheon in Los Angeles in September in support of the beauty brand’s Women’s Health Mission, which in part served to raise awareness for this year's philanthropic initiatives including Revlon's second annual Love Is On Million Dollar Challenge. And from that initiative came a “love” theme executed in clean, graphic decor including centerpieces: clean white block lettering spelling out “Spread the Power of Love,” with red roses set in black vessels at the base, running the length of long, spare tables. The idea was to infuse Revlon branding into the space in a way that did not detract from the philanthropic messaging.

When David Stark created the decor for a Culture Lab Detroit dinner in September 16, he took inspiration from Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen's Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, a multimedia examination of chicken breeding; Vanmechelen incorporates the project in his solo exhibition at the Detroit art gallery Wasserman Projects, where the dinner took place. To pull in the theme, Stark topped tables dressed in natural canvas with raw wood risers that held open egg cartons, containing 80 dozen eggs. After the party, the eggs went to the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm to be sold alongside their produce.