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In January, Bulgari hosted a benefit at Ron Burkle’s Beverly Hills manse. Mitie Tucker Event Production transformed the dinner tent into a private library with images of bookshelves lining the walls, tables covered in faux crocodile, and lamps and books as centerpieces.

For the Museum of Modern Art’s film benefit on November 15 in New York, the celebrity arrivals backdrop wasn’t a step-and-repeat of logos but rather a wall of 20,000 fresh crimson-colored roses.

Many of the tables this year opted against traditional floral centerpieces. David Stark's whimsical installation for sponsor Benjamin Moore, based on the brand’s new Color Stories paint collection, played off the slogan “A whole new chapter in paint color technology is being written.” The library-inspired setting featured a table made from actual books, with handcrafted pop-up books serving as a centerpiece.

On July 13, as a way to celebrate the centennial of Jackson Pollock's birth—and raise funds for the Jackson Pollock Lee Krasner Study House, which is a gallery you can tour and see where he did his drip painting, as long as you wear booties—ArtHamptons organized performance-art pieces. Here, a brave model couple gets a pretty hardcore initiation into the drip painting method.

Here's our happy couple again. I wonder what Jackson Pollock would have thought of this performance. (I giggled nervously)

At the Zing vodka launch, the press wall took the form of a hedge with 2,000 roses spelling out the brand's name.

At the Lowline "Anti-Gala" in New York, an eye-catching "Experiments in Motion" exhibit—produced by a partnership between Audi of America and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture—stood at the event entrance. The installation, projected on the floor, showed the constant movement in Manhattan, which was updated in real time with the current traffic patterns. Mirroring the projections on the ceiling was a 45-foot-long steel model of the Manhattan subway grid that showcased maps never before viewed by the public.

Centerpieces were illuminated lamps with text from the play.