From free-form draping to structured, tentlike installations, overhead swags of fabric have appeared in a variety of forms at recent events.
Studio in a School benefit
Photo: Mary Hilliard
David Stark Design created a medieval-inspired tent with long strips of colored fabric for New York City Opera's spring gala, which celebrated the production of Henry Purcell's King Arthur.
Photo: Joe Fornabaio for BizBash
For Elton John's annual Oscar-night AIDS fund-raising gala in Los Angeles, Antony Todd used strips of ribbon to create a curved ceiling.
Photo: Eric Bertholet
At this year's South by Southwest festival in Austin, BMF Media Group suspended bolts of cloud-printed fabric from the ceiling of Eastsport Café, a hospitality lounge for musicians and members of the media.
Photo: Hal Harowitz for Elevation Photos
Chicago-based Redmoon Theater's Spectacle Lunatique fund-raiser at the MCA Warehouse featured surreal, Alice in Wonderland-like vignettes, including this silk-draped space.
Photo: Eric Craig for BizBash
For a dinner celebrating the 30th anniversary of arts nonprofit Studio in a School in New York, Van Wyck & Van Wyck hung colorful, crisscrossed swags of silk over dining tables.
Photo: Mary Hilliard
