11 Broadway-Inspired Tabletop Ideas From Diffa's Picnic By Desi

BKSK Interiors designed a disco-theme basket inspired by Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. The display featured a poster and signed playbill, two Riedel stemless champagne flutes, a 48-inch diameter faux sheepskin rug, and two tickets to see the musical and go on a backstage tour.

Hunter Douglas and Patrick James Hamilton Designs created the display inspired by the Tony-nominated Mean Girls. The design featured a mini hot pink school locker, with items including a four-piece martini set from Tuscany Classics, Kate Spade cocktail shakers, and four pink and orange ombre placemats. Ramy Cosmetics provided cosmetics and makeup and brow-shaping gift certificates. The locker also included gift certificates to see the show and eat at Cafeteria in New York.

Drawing inspiration from Frozen, a basket designed by home fashion brand Kravet Inc. features mirrored obelisks and spiked vases to imitate icicles and a silver-toned sculpture to evoke a glacier.

Inspired by the SpongeBob SquarePants musical, bed and bath linen brand Matouk created a display that showcased its new Nikita azure bath rug and two types of towels evoking a sea theme. The display also featured the company’s ocean breeze candles and guest bar soaps and, of course, a pineapple.

Inspired by Mamma Mia!, McCory Interiors designed an Aegean teal-hued basket that highlighted the brand’s woven coverings, cushions, and napkins. Additional items included a picnic basket with a cooler in Duralee fabric, bottles of Ouzo and Moschofilero Boutari wine, a jar of olive tapenade, a marble mortar and pestle, and a CD of the cast recording.

For Dear Evan Hansen, Michele Alfano Design created a basket that played off the main character’s striped shirt, and aimed to imitate the paradox of feeling interconnected through social media but isolated in the real world. The basket features Robert Allen fabric stripes, a blanket and two settings with Kravet fabric, cutlery from Horne Goa with gold-plated and blue resin handles, and a playbill signed by the cast.

Mikel Welch Designs crafted an Africa-theme basket that paid tribute to The Lion King with a variety of condiments and kitchen items. The basket also had a bottle of Veuve Clicquot and two tickets to the Disney musical.

NPZ Style & Decor took inspiration from Chicago The Musical by presenting a 1920s Prohibition-theme basket. The basket was handwoven with French gold vintage thread and decorated with feathers, a red lips mini sofa inspired by Mae West, and the original 1975 musical vinyl with Chita Rivera and Gwen Verdon. Additional items included gold ombre martini glasses, two black ceramic dinnerware sets with brass flatware, a brass cocktail shaker, and a Prohibition era cocktail book.

Home accessories and interior designer Peter Valcarcel created a display inspired by South Pacific, which had items including a tote bag, a throw, two pillows with down feather inserts, two hand-painted plates, and chopsticks with leather-wrapped ends.

Tyler Wisler’s Moroccan-theme tabletop paid tribute to Aladdin with a Nourison carpet, a Funko Pop figure of the monkey Abu, and a genie lamp.

Vanessa Deleon Associates drew inspiration from both the 1961 film and 2013 stage production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the basket. Items included a vintage Tiffany & Co. sterling silver tag necklace, a 24-inch trolley suitcase by Co-Z, two Breakfast at Tiffany’s ticket pillows, a Ty Silk cat, and a Tiffany ribbon gift box blanket.