Diffa's Dining By Design, which ended Monday, offered a wealth of decor inspiration for events. A few recurring ideas spotted among the 32 dining environments on display include contrasting fabrics, chairs of different styles and colors around the same table, and long arrangements of flowers and plants that stretched across the length of several tables, similar to a fabric runner.
David Beahm's table for Continental Airlines had a banquette with two contrasting fabrics and wooden seats.
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Kravet mixed bright florals and stripes on dining chairs and Japanese-style fabric-covered boxes at each place setting.
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Bradley Stephens's dining space used fabric designed by Rodarte for Knoll in gold ombré and a light blue pattern of a winter scene.
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Rich Brilliant Willing's modern take on a barn had plenty of raw touches, as well as a mix of chairs in classic modernist styles.
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Students from the drama department at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University worked with David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group to create an old-fashioned circus under a striped tent. Seating included bales of hay, stools, and an overturned bucket.
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Slade Architecture collected discarded furniture from the streets of New York, including a range of dining chairs, and covered the pieces in colored masking tape, creating a bold striped look.
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Chairs of different shapes, colors, and styles from Disney's furniture line surrounded the company's table.
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A row of succulents and other potted plants ran down the center of David Stark's table for Benjamin Moore.
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Manhattan magazine's table, by Marc Wilson Designs and Mark Tamayo, had a row of yellow and white flowers and tiny New York City landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building.
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Marc Blackwell's pied-Ã -terre included several small arrangements of roses and rose petals along the middle of the dining table.
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