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For the fourth annual Sweetlife festival, hosted by Washington eatery Sweetgreen at Merriweather Post Pavilion, the V.I.P. area’s DJ booth was outfitted with hundreds of bright orange traffic cones.

Held on the lot where its satellite museum will be housed, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s American Art Award dinner on May 19 incorporated orange netting as tabletop centerpieces.

Television network A&E crafted an abstract prison for a reception held March 2 to mark the forthcoming premiere of its new drama series Breakout Kings. The event employed chain-link fencing as the backdrop for bars.