The key to planning the design for Mount Sinai's seventeenth annual Crystal Ball—which marked the hospital's 150th anniversary—was to work with the dramatic space that housed the party. The glass ceilings of the hospital's Guggenheim Pavilion are at least three stories high, so Robert Isabell suspended long, vine-like candelabras with votive candles that hung 20 feet from the ceiling, and placed 16-foot-tall candelabras against the pavilion's brick walls. The pieces managed to make the unusual space feel cozy and intimate.
Keeping in mind the event was being held at a hospital, Isabell also said he wanted the atmosphere to be "refined and tasteful." And Eileen Solomon, who heads the hospital's special events, said her goal was to keep with the evening's tradition of simple elegance. A line of violinists played for guests as they entered the tent-covered Ross Garden, where they mingled during cocktail hour, surrounded by bouquets of white flowers on high pedestals.
When guests were seated in the pavilion for dinner, four white taper candles stood around each table's flower arrangement, helping to play down the venue's height and keeping the atmosphere more intimate. Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs catered the three-course dinner, which was finished off with a cookie in the shape of the Crystal Ball's 150th anniversary emblem atop each chocolate cake dessert.
Large video screens provided by SIA Acoustics projected a short film summing up the history and successes of the hospital. Guests danced to music provided by DJ Tom Finn (of Studio 54 fame) before reaching for the canvas and leather Seaman Schepps gift bags. Inside were Bridgewater chocolates, Dazzling Gold perfume donated by Estee Lauder, and a gift wrapped silver picture frame. The Crystal Ball raised $5 million for Mount Sinai Hospital.
--Paul Ohan
Keeping in mind the event was being held at a hospital, Isabell also said he wanted the atmosphere to be "refined and tasteful." And Eileen Solomon, who heads the hospital's special events, said her goal was to keep with the evening's tradition of simple elegance. A line of violinists played for guests as they entered the tent-covered Ross Garden, where they mingled during cocktail hour, surrounded by bouquets of white flowers on high pedestals.
When guests were seated in the pavilion for dinner, four white taper candles stood around each table's flower arrangement, helping to play down the venue's height and keeping the atmosphere more intimate. Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs catered the three-course dinner, which was finished off with a cookie in the shape of the Crystal Ball's 150th anniversary emblem atop each chocolate cake dessert.
Large video screens provided by SIA Acoustics projected a short film summing up the history and successes of the hospital. Guests danced to music provided by DJ Tom Finn (of Studio 54 fame) before reaching for the canvas and leather Seaman Schepps gift bags. Inside were Bridgewater chocolates, Dazzling Gold perfume donated by Estee Lauder, and a gift wrapped silver picture frame. The Crystal Ball raised $5 million for Mount Sinai Hospital.
--Paul Ohan
Robert Isabell suspended long, vine-like candelabras with votive candles that hung 20 feet from the ceiling, and placed 16-foot-tall candelabras against the Guggenheim Pavilion's brick walls.
A line of violinists played for guests as they entered the tent-covered Ross Garden for cocktail hour.
At each table, Isabell placed four white taper candles around tasteful flower arrangements.
Sixteen-foot-tall candelabras stood against the pavilion's brick walls to help make the space cozy and intimate.
