Here's a look at 10 steal-worthy ideas we spotted this week, including Grant Achatz's seaweed-infused cocktail at the presentation of the James Beard Awards in New York, robots that let guests film their own documentaries at a Tribeca Film Festival pop-up, flags made entirely out of roses at the Met Ball, and frozen salmon chandeliers in Toronto.
Brides, Bubbles, and Bliss
Carasco Photography hosted "Brides, Bubbles, and Bliss" at Chicago's Bridgeport Art Center on May 1. The event showcased tabletops from different vendors. Ashland Addison Florist created a hanging table strewn with hundreds of pink and white orchids.
Photo: Carasco Photography
'Visionaire' 63 "Forever" Issue Launch
During the Frieze New York art fair weekend, Visionaire magazine and its issue partner G-Shock threw a bash at the Clocktower Gallery in TriBeCa. All the furniture was hand-wrapped in traditional kitchen aluminum foil. Forty pounds of Mylar confetti covered the floor, and the brick walls were painted silver and purposefully left unfinished.
Photo: Courtesy of Bureau Betak
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala
The staircase at the May 6 gala in New York was flanked by oversize American and British flags made entirely of 150,000 red, white, and blue roses.
Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art/BFAnyc.com
Zynga NewFront
Social gaming giant Zynga, best known for Facebook game FarmVille had its first foray into the NewFronts with a May 3 event at Openhouse Gallery. FarmVille was represented as a petting zoo, with actors dressed in animal costumes inviting guests to, well, pet them. Trays of snacks were set into the top of the white fence surrounding the area, like a trough.
Photo: Anna Sekula/BizBash
The Carlu's 10th Anniversary
The Carlu hotel in Toronto hosted a 10th anniversary bash on May 3. IceCulture created a "salmon chandelier" by freezing real fish in 10 blocks of ice.
Photo: Courtesy of L-Eat Catering
Tate Americas Foundation's Artists Dinner
Industrial elements dominated the Tate Americas Foundation's Artists Dinner on May 8. Designer David Stark used giant metallic tubes, florescent lights, and galvanized metal accents in New York's raw event space Skylight at Moynihan Station.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
Artists for Humanity's "Greatest Party on Earth"
The fund-rasier took over the Artists for Humanity Epicenter in Boston on April 27, and an abstract sculpture hanging over the dance floor underscored the eco-conscious theme of climate change. The piece was meant to evoke the ghostly, transparent look of melting glaciers.
Photo: Artists For Humanity Photography Studio
Bombay Sapphire House of Imagination Presents Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes
The Storyscapes pop-up, held at New York's Dune Studios April 18 to 21, offered many interactive media projects for guest participation. Robots in Residence was a project that used programmed robots to direct and shoot ongoing documentary footage at the event.
Photo: Richard Patterson for Bombay Sapphire
American Cancer Society's Discovery Ball
Dubbed "Passport to Discovery," the American Cancer Society's Discovery Ball at Chicago's Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel on April 27 had a travel-inspired theme. Based on an old-fashioned train station, HMR Design Group's decor included suitcases, trunks, and street lamps; the registration desk looked like a ticket counter.
Photo: Jenn Gaudreau
The 23rd Annual Presentation of the James Beard Awards
The presentation of the James Beard Awards took place at New York's Avery Fisher Hall on May 6. Grant Achatz and his team from the Aviary brought in several infusion vessels to house their 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-inspired cocktail, which was flavored with lemon peel, three kinds of seaweed, oolong tea, and lychees.
Photo: Kent Miller/James Beard Foundation
