The brunch featured a 25-foot ceiling installation designed by Taylor and Hov's creative director and executed by Garette Turner of Brightly Ever After. The colorful focal point featured marble balloons and oversize cotton clouds.
The vodka brand’s lounge area, which was located near the Honda stage, featured specialty craft cocktails, plenty of leather seating, and distillery-inspired decor.
Elderflower liqueur brand St-Germain partnered with creative director Lily Kwong for the Los Angeles debut of Maison St-Germain, which took place August 2 at the Houdini Estate. The event had a magical realism and botanical fantasy theme, with decor elements that included a white silhouette of a house with hanging florals.
One of the most popular events of Emmys weekend was Fox Broadcasting’s elegant after-party, held on Sunday night at Vibiana. FX, 20th Century Fox TV, and National Geographic joined in, which meant the party drew star-studded casts from shows such as Fargo, Atlanta, and Genius. Yifat Oren handled the design, which featured a massive balloon installation and starry decor hanging over the historic venue. Screens at one end of the large venue showed the Emmys telecast and promoted various Fox shows.
Hanging overhead was a 20-foot replica of the Royal Pavilion’s banquet-room chandelier. Sixteen-foot-long chinoiserie bridges enabled guests to cross the exterior garden pond. Special Event Contractors handled the elevated subfloors, perimeter walls, elevated walkways, and decorative railings.
During the evening, Wolfgang Puck Catering served a buffet supper, while 24 Seven Productions provided a dinner band, and DJ J. Bray performed.
Following the Emmys, HBO hosted its annual star-studded bash at the Pacific Design Center’s fountain plaza. HBO’s vice president of special events, Cindy Tenner, once again enlisted designer Billy Butchkavitz; this was Butchkavitz’s 19th consecutive HBO Emmy party. (Butchkavitz’s brother, Brian, and sister, Peggy, also helped with event creation and installation.)
Design inspiration was taken from the intricate Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England, and Butchkavitz used custom textiles, furniture, tabletop decor, and carpeting that matched the pavilion’s bold chinoiserie interiors. Animated projections from Bart Kresa Design and lighting from Images by Lighting created a dramatic effect inside the tent.
Floral centerpieces by L.A. Premier featured more than 20,000 stems of large calla lilies, and 350 guest tables were topped with 7,500 yards of custom-woven, textured metallic fabric. Tables and tabletop items were designed to complement the ceiling installation.
“Featuring a sweeping, seemingly endless expanse of vertical tubes suspended in the air, the grand ceiling is complemented by linear seating placement, mirroring and emulating the symmetry up above—and all inspired by signature Emmy gold,” explained Cecchetto.
The Governors Ball, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center after the Primetime Emmys telecast, drew more than 4,000 winners, nominees, and members of the entertainment industry. For their 20th year designing and producing the largest seated dinner in North America, Cheryl Cecchetto and her team at Sequoia Productions chose a “golden grandeur” theme. The streamlined aesthetic emphasized recurring architectural shapes in monochromatic gold, and the event’s 350 rectangular tables and 4,000 chairs were complemented by tall, modern table lamps. The night’s most eye-catching detail, however, was a ceiling installation made from 5,000 paper cylinders painted with biodegradable gold coloring.
The same decor was used for the Creative Arts Emmys dinners, which were held on September 9 and 10.
For the Parrish Art Museum event, which was held in Watermill, New York, on July 15, Ovando drew inspiration from the work of one of the honorees, Clifford Ross. The custom-crafted ceiling treatment aimed to transport the guests into the ocean, using hundreds of panes of different shades of blue polypropylene.
Pilar Guzmán and Chris Mitchell hosted an intimate Mexico-inspired dinner, in conjunction with Moët Hennessy’s Volcan De Mi Tierra tequila, at the Amagansett home of MSNBC host JJ Ramberg and her architect husband Scott Glass on July 15.
For the Parrish Art Museum event, which was held in Watermill on July 15, Ovando drew inspiration from the work of one of the honorees, Clifford Ross. The custom-crafted ceiling treatment aimed to transport the guests into the ocean, using hundreds of panes of different shades of blue polypropylene.
Hosted by Kristin Tice Studeman and Surf Lodge owner Jayma Cardoso, the dinner series kicked off on July 7 at Surf Lodge in Montauk.
Vanity Fair’s Oscars after-party continued to be the most exclusive bash in town. The Sunday-night event once again took place at a custom-built space between the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts and City Hall, and was hosted by new Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones.
A wall of greenery and marquee signage created an instant photo op at one end of the bash, while the rest of the party had simple decor, allowing the unique paneled ceiling and 50-foot bar to take center stage.
Guests dined on fried chicken prepared by chef Thomas Keller, as well as 1,700 In-N-Out Burgers that were served throughout the night.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel hosted his own private party on Sunday night at the Lot in West Hollywood. The venue was transformed into a mini food and cocktail festival, with chefs from Tartine Bakery, Frankies 457 Spuntino & Prime Meats, A.O.C., and more serving Kimmel’s favorite foods and drinks from Tequila Don Julio and Ciroc.
Later, a 14-piece jazz orchestra called Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band took the stage, followed by performances from Snoop Dogg, Rita Ora, and Bebe Rexha.
The luxury car brand also hosted its annual Oscar celebration on Thursday night at Chateau Marmont, drawing a crowd of celebrities including Allison Janney, Tiffany Haddish, and Sarah Silverman. Event Eleven handled production and design.
Drink Company, the company behind Washington’s Instagram-friendly pop-up bars Miracle on Seventh Street and the Game of Thrones Pop-Up Bar, brought back its Japanese culture-theme bar for a second year. Drink Company partnered with the National Cherry Blossom Festival for the pop-up, which serves thematic cocktails in eye-popping rooms inspired by cherry blossoms, Tokyo streets, and Japanese pop culture. The design of each room was led by Drink Company’s special projects leaders Matt Fox and Adriana Aspiazu. The bar features a canopy of around 90,000 cherry blossoms, which is five times more blossoms than the bar had last year. The pop-up debuted March 1 and is open through April 29 at 1841 Seventh Street NW.
The center bar combines the architectural elements of pagodas and tea houses and is decorated with paper cranes and lucky cats.
A garden room decorated with boxwood, a variety of florals, and 1,300 monarch butterflies pays tribute to Washington in spring bloom.
The Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Diamond Ball was held on October 27 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami. The theme, “A Frosted Masquerade Affair,” was translated by WOW Factor Marketing Group to glitzy effect in the ballroom: Tall structures dripping with crystals alternated with centerpieces of chandeliers enclosed in Lucite boxes and Lucite candelabras holding white floral balls on dinner tables.
PHD Terrace at New York’s Dream Midtown debuted a season-long holiday pop-up in November. The bar features a festive green, orange, and white color scheme, with a swing photo op, floral installations, and mistletoe adornments. The pop-up was designed and installed by artist Jenevieve Penk in collaboration with Tao Group at Dream Hotels.
"The LED Halo screen at Charity: Water's fund-raiser in San Francisco was unlike anything I've ever seen. It was custom-fabricated for the event to immerse 522 dinner guests into the daily life of residents of Ethiopia who need clean water. The 'halo' consisted of 40,000 pounds of LED wall, truss, lighting, audio equipment, and cables. The LED wall was provided by Global Trend Productions; working with Trademark Event Production, they designed a way to hang this circular wall using the frames of the LED tiles. The second, third, fourth, and fifth layers of LED tile were hung from custom-machined L-brackets to lighten the load. Elle Chan from Trademark said that they couldn't have built such a big wall without the custom fabrication. Throughout the event, the Halo displayed a 360-degree view of the daily walk that one resident of Ethiopia takes to procure water, plus live totalizers of the amount raised at the gala. (The totalizer was powered through an app custom-made for the event by All of It Now.)" —Robyn Hagan Cain, San Francisco contributing editor
The evening featured a total of nine events, including cocktail receptions and additional dinners. A reception at Zellerbach Hall was illuminated with 48 crystal chandeliers.
The event’s 3,500 attendees split off to four concurrent dinners, the largest of which took place in a 12,000-square-foot tent outside the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. More than 300 gold- and rose gold-illuminated glass pendants hung from the tent’s ceiling, and eye-catching floral bouquets created focal points.
To make all 700 dinner guests feel included, organizers used varied seating arrangements accented with custom-fabricated floral glass installations that created a series of vignettes.
Netflix’s event took place in a tented party space at 9900 Wilshire. The streaming platform worked with Best Events to create a nightclub vibe, which included a psychedelic, neon-lined photo booth.
The 20th annual Warner Bros. and InStyle party, sponsored by Cadillac and L’Oréal Paris, took place at the Beverly Hilton’s Oasis Courtyard. The event, which was produced and designed by JOWY Productions, showcased gold details that included a grouping of "golden globes" that hung above the bar area.
Nearly 400 people attended the museum’s annual benefit and after-party in West Palm Beach, Florida, in February, which honored trustee Gilbert Maurer for spearheading the New Norton, the expansion project that’s in its final year of construction. The evening raised more than $1 million to support the museum’s programs and exhibitions.
