Event Greenery

The arrivals backdrop—featuring the Cartier and MoMA logos rendered in neon and marquee lights—echoed the dense arrangements of tropical greenery found inside the dinner space.

Inside the lobby and atrium, the museum’s planning team delivered a streamlined, modern affair that showcased exotic, lush greenery and pops of neon against a stark white background.

The Joffrey Ballet's 2010 spring gala had a modern look, with abstract fabric sculptures that hovered over the cocktail tables and formed a barrier between the reception area and dinner tables.

The 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards gala in Los Angeles had a striking but simple look, with bunches of upside-down calla lillies hanging overhead. White furnishings were arranged in lounge-like formations.

White decor dominated the ballroom at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles for Elle's Women in Hollywood awards in 2009. The space, which was decked out in white furnishings, linens, and dinnerware, had splashes of color in the form of floral centerpieces.

At the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award after-party in Los Angeles in 2010, white flowers topped the tufted bars.

For Diffa's New York Dining by Design benefit in 2004, Robert Rufino of luxury jewelry company Tiffany crafted a towering centerpiece of white feathers and strings of iridescent beads. The structure was surrounded by small bunches of white flowers at the base. Other touches included marabou boas, which draped the backs of the chairs, and a white rug.

Hospitality brand Nikki Beach hosted a V.I.P. pop-up lounge for the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. The space on the 18th floor of the Park Hyatt was outfitted with flowing white curtains and white quilted leather furnishings, and white-lacquered bamboo was used to divide the space.

The Giselle gala at the Harris Theater this year boasted all-white decor with large, transparent cubes that were suspended from the ceiling in the dining area. Ferns and white freesia dotted the table tops.

For the National Ballet of Canada's "White Hot" gala in 2009, Three Event Planning & Design topped the dining tables with tall cone-shaped plexiglass towers that projected different colors onto white mannequin heads at the base of each structure.

At Tourism Toronto's client reception in 2007, a three-tiered acrylic structure that was accented with wild white flowers and green vines served as a display for all-white chocolate sushi bites.

Diffa's Chicago Dining by Design benefit in 2010 featured an all-white display by CS Interiors, with white bird-shaped props at each place setting and fluffy white pillows on chairs.

For New York's first Dîner en Blanc at the World Financial Center Plaza last year, guests were asked to wear white clothing and bring a list of items—including white plastic folding chairs and square tables, white tablecloths and napkins, white dinnerware.

In 2006, nonprofit art organization Performa instructed its guests to wear white—the combined "canvas" of their outfits served as moving screens for colorful video projections produced by Gerrit Vooren and Brian Miller of Reels4Artists.