More Photos From Horticultural Society Benefit

Flora New York's table had a futuristic and ethereal design with globes and glowing blue lights. Dominating the table was a large Lucite globe filled with lime green cymbidium, white cattleya orchids, and stephanotis. Hanging off the chairs were small globes, each with a cymbidium blossom inside for guests to take home.

Calling to mind the evening’s fund-raising mission, Remco Van Vliet of Van Vliet & Trap pinned dollar bills flat on the top of his table’s green linens, and had little red toy men brandishing swords and climbing up an orange branch decorated with folded and fanned out dollars (metaphor, anyone?).

LMD’s Lewis Miller topped his table with a white peacock—the bird was an apt symbol of the designers showing off at the benefit—perched above a leafy arrangement of cascading purple flowers mixed with elaborate tassels and fruits like strawberries, grapes, and cherries. Peacock feathers decorated the tabletop and the backs of the chairs as well.

Although the flowers topping Prudence Designs’ table were not as imposing as some of the others, the Christian Lacroix for Christofle china (showing women in period dress) and the tablecloth drew attention. Resembling a ball gown Cinderella might have worn, the table’s top layer of silk taffeta—gathered and embellished with Mokuba ribbons—revealed an underskirt of brightly colored silk roses.