Decoration

Jes Gordon/Proper Fun created a supper club atmosphere at Gotham Hall in New York for a recent bar mitzvah. Four-hundred luminaries filled with LED candles were hung from a large oval truss on the ceiling.

Levy Lighting and Preston Bailey collaborated on a wedding after-party lounge held in a tent, with the ceiling lit from behind to create the glowing effect.

Clear umbrellas and glittering beads hung from the ceiling in the spring area. The sound of falling rain played in the background.

On the other side of the lounge, chandeliers served as highboy tables and furniture hung from the ceiling.

Heffernan Morgan Ronsley handled decor. Centerpieces were four-to-eight-feet-tall steel structures with Piet Mondrian-inspired panels in neon pink, amber, and peacock and royal blues.

Matthew Parker Events crafted lighting fixtures for a speakeasy-themed wedding using hats from a party supply store, decorative ribbon, corded wire, and filament bulbs.

For a wedding at the King Plow Event Gallery in Atlanta, Bold American Events & Catering designed an upside-down centerpiece of yellow tulips and glass globes that hung above the head table.

Surrounded by camellia trees, the promenade area was redone as a garden space, reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's classic La Belle et la Bête. The room highlighted Chanel's fine jewelry collection alongside flowers that shone with diamonds.

The design concept touched all areas of Skylight SoHo's 15,000-square-foot interior, including the hallway, which Target remodeled into a Parisian-style boulevard with lampposts, painted illustrations of buildings, and trees surrounded by benches.

A 33-foot Airstream motor home served a dual purpose at the booth by sunglass-maker Costa: It provided meeting space for up to 15 people and also was a key piece of decor for the retro, beach-like atmosphere the company was trying to create.

Suspended mirrors were strategically placed behind the groves of trees at dinner to magnify their presence. Van Wyck brought in redbud and sycamore trees ranging in height, from 12 to 14 feet tall, and an array of rich colors, like burgundy, plum, and blood red.

Real tree branches and miniature faux tree centerpieces were part of the garden motif.

With less than three hours for set up, David Beahm and his team converted Saks Fifth Avenue's third floor into a veritable garden of Eden.

Bloomberg and Vanity Fair decorated the lawn of the the French ambassador’s residence for their celebrity-filled party after the dinner on Saturday night.

Atlantic Media owner David Bradley hosted a dinner at his home on Friday night. The tent in the backyard had an African theme meant to raise awareness of the fight against malaria. Photos from a United Nations exhibit hung near tables with African-print tablecloths.

For lighting, the design team used more than 870 candles suspended from the ceiling. Several chandeliers were strategically placed throughout the dining room, including two different types of glass, globe-shaped fixtures. LED screens hung on either side of the room, giving guests a closer look at the stage presentation.

Unlike last year’s outing, which took over the multilevel indoor-outdoor setting of the Palladium, the after-party for ESPN’s ESPY Awards on July 11 was held inside the JW Marriott L.A. Live. To make it feel less like a ballroom, Precision Event Group incorporated videos and still imagery into the design, created a trilevel structure for the bar, installed patterned fabrics on the walls, and placed modern furnishings throughout.

UrbanDaddy's "white room" event—an affair created in partnership with Stoli to promote the vodka brand's new campaign and flavors—invited guests to create the night's decor using paint and brushes. The November party in New York also supplied its attendees with lab coats and goggles to protect clothes from their creative tasks.

On Tuesday, Stella McCartney presented its fall 2013 collection at New York’s 680 Park Avenue, building a series of vignettes for models to lounge in and around. In keeping with the designer’s quirky style, the event filled the ceiling with pink helium-filled balloons.

This year's Winter Illuminations festival in Japan displayed more than seven million sparkling LED lights spread across the grounds of the Nabana no Sato botanical garden, part of the Nagashima Onsen resort area in Kuwana City. The annual festival runs for five months, between November and March, and every year millions visit to witness the stunning display of lights, one of the largest wintertime illumination events in the country.

The Paintbrush ball in Chicago celebrated Marwen's silver anniversary with ubiquitous pops of the metallic hue. Guests entered the dinner tent through a tunnel of silver balloons.

As guests entered New York's Metropolitan Museum through the Great Hall for the Costume Institute gala, they met a 24-foot-tall cynlinder covered in 40,000 roses from Colombia and Ecuador with a lip pattern inspired by Schiaparelli and Prada designs. A team of 150 staffers worked to prepare the floral decor.

The Ghost Chair's armless version, the Victoria Ghost, was used at MoCA Chicago's Art Edge gala in February.

A 20-foot-wide shimmering gold metal chandelier included 15,000 hand-tied hanging gold metal disc strands.

Thomas Ford of Tom Ford Designs constructed a tent over the hotel's fountain and transformed the space using the colors of natural elements such as anthracite, gold, quartz, and bronze. Design highlights included illuminated agate quartz walls and a gold ceiling.

The room was adorned with anthracite-hued leather furniture, garnet red carpeting, and gold accent pieces.

In the adjacent Godiva-sponsored lounge, the confectioner worked with Abel McCallister to create chocolate installations inspired by romance and film moments.

The exhibition included six chocolate inscriptions of the word "Love" on rose-petal walls.

Longtime collaborator Billy Butchkavitz worked with HBO's Cindy Tenner to design a look in the Circa 55 restaurant and adjoining pool area that took its inspiration from the patterns on the stone mosaic walkways of Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.

A dramatic 24-foot-tall, 130-foot-wide wall by Special Event Contractors covered with black paillette draperies created the backdrop for HBO's event while concealing two floors of hotel guest rooms.

Given rainy Globes nights in recent years, this year Best Events built tents into the overall look of the affair so that nothing would look like an afterthought or contingency. The party space consisted of two large tents, with 10,000 square feet of subfloor to cover the majority of the parking lot.

Decor was an eclectic mix of vintage finds, mid-century modern, and retro furniture to create a residential feel. Large strips of chocolate brown and blue decked the carpeting, and overhead fabric panels streaked across the tents for a dropped-ceiling effect.

Ceiling treatments that bore an intricate, scale-like look hung above the tented party space.

Benarroch Productions turned the backyard and pool area into a luxe Indonesian-inspired structure where guests lounged on overstuffed couches under a canopy of suspended candles and crystals.

On Saturday, the Art of Elysium hosted its annual Heaven gala, with a look Visionary award honoree and designer Colleen Atwood described as attempting to make "guests feel like they are at the horizon between the sky and the sea." That translated to a palette of greys and blues executed by Yifat Oren & Associates.

Musical guests included Mariachi el Bronx during cocktail hour and performances by Josh Radin and Chad Gendason during dinner. To end the night, guests heard an intimate serenade from John Legend at the after-party. Audi was the title sponsor of this year's gala, with additional partners Cîroc Vodka and Tweezerman.

MKG produced Delta's pre-Grammy event at the Getty House, all done in a tented party space in the brand's signature red. Seating samples in the event space showed off Delta's Business Elite experience, and a Delta Sky Luxury Bar was meant to give a sample of the experience offered at some Delta Sky Clubs in airports. Jermaine Dupri was the DJ.