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L.A.-based artist Jorge Pardo created a special edition of brightly colored lanterns that hung over the Hammer Museum's Gala in the Garden.

Todd Events made a wedding held inside a large barn in Aspen seem more intimate with two tall signature bars and scattered seating and food station vignettes. Hanging glass globes appeared to lower the ceilings.

Boston-based Target collaborator Polka Dog Bakery had its doggie wares displayed in a spiral, chandelier-like installation that hung from ceiling-mounted rigging. At the base was a tongue-in-cheek reminder of the shop's key, four-legged customer.

Interior designer Libby Langdon's table for Liebherr showcased a chandelier made from wine bottles and filament bulbs. A lush centerpiece of greenery, succulents, and moss completed the homey style.

On Saturday, some 1,200 guests headed out to the Watermill Center in the Hamptons for the art organization’s annual benefit, one of the season’s biggest draws for philanthropists. Titled the “Big Bang,” this year’s event included wild performance art scattered around the campus as well as a chandelier in the dinner tent—devised by artists Angelos Tsourapas and Vassilis Zidianakis of Atopos CVC—that was made up of plastic recycling bags and pink fabric streamers.