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.
A room inspired by Japanese pop culture features a 10-foot-tall Godzilla robot that was built by Andrew Herndon. The robot stands in front of a mural of the monster’s destroyed city, painted by Andew Funk. The installation also features Mothra, which is Gozilla’s nemesis.
Maggie O’Neill, a Washington-based designer and official National Cherry Blossom Festival artist, debuted her cherry blossom-theme pop-up exhibit March 30. The exhibit, open every Saturday and Sunday at 1643 Connecticut Avenue NW through April 15, features the #FinesInFullBloom installation created from parking tickets. The installation pokes fun at the pink parking ticket that local drivers can receive with a floor-to-ceiling, origami-inspired blossoming structure. The exhibit also features 12 of O’Neill’s pop impressionistic-style paintings, 40 works on paper created specifically for the festival, and cherry blossom-theme merchandise.
The Robin Hood Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary May 14 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. The benefit, which had a “Lights of New York” theme, had three-sided mini marquee centerpieces that offered messages of gratitude and celebrated the organization's anniversary. David Stark Design and Production designed the event.
Groups of dancers performed on platforms with dramatic backgrounds, including one depicting the New York skyline. To transition to cocktails, the dancers joined in a single high-energy performance and led guests to the dinner space.
