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The producers of St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School's sports-themed auction in 2010 tapped commercial sculptor A.J. Strasser to create oversize models of sports-related objects.

Team Up's Players' gala, which took place in Toronto earlier this year, featured food stations inspired by athletes.

Tony Berger of Relevent brought in falafel, taco, and soda stations from PTG Event Services at the Nike party to help guests feel like they were at a real sporting event.

The Peninsula's Sun Terrace rooftop bar in New York offers 2,700 square feet of outdoor space. Decorated to match the color scheme of the adjacent Peninsula spa, the space boasts plush chaise lounges and dining tables in warm saffron and russet-hued fabrics. The terrace can be booked for private events for as many as 75 guests.

With views of Lake Michigan and the Hancock Building, the new outdoor terrace at Chicago's Raffaello Hotel features built-in banquet seating and two fireplaces. The 1,500-square-foot space seats 75 people or holds 100 standing. Drumbar also is planning a second terrace for private parties and events.

The Warner Brothers International Television Distribution gala filled the Burbank lot with digital mapping, costumed entertainers, and an array of pyrotechnic stunts and decor.

To add more color and match the red and blue lighting, MKG installed art-like wall displays of hundreds of individual lightbulbs behind two bars positioned at either end of the hallway.

California-based rental company Archive Rentals offers a large collection of authentic vintage Western and camping-themed items, including reclaimed barn-wood tables, camping trailers, Airstream trailers and canoes.

For Heineken's Inspire Tour in 2010, the food was adapted to the New York market with items like Reuben sandwiches, Chinese dumplings, hot dogs, and falafels served from street carts.

For the picnic-inspired Absolut Orient Apple launch party in New York last summer, organizers covered the floor of the indoor venue with sod, and brought in live trees and wooden barrels filled with thousands of apples.

For an indoor summer-themed gathering, Swank producers used beach balls to create playful "chandeliers." Tables were covered in summery yellow and orange linens.

Megavision Arts created 2-D and 3-D wall projections as a nod to the pool theme at a party to celebrate newly renovated Los Angeles venue Nic's Beverly Hills.

Zen Arts in Southern California offers an array of entertainment that can take place in or around a pool, including their transparent spheres that hold performers and float on water.

At the Power Ball in Toronto, guests took a ride on wooden swings in the main party area.

At Sunglass Hut's summer block party in Miami, family-friendly games included corn hole, bocce ball, ping-pong, and hopscotch.

Blueberry pie pops, blueberry cobbler in iron skillets, and Guinness stout cake, by A Divine Event (770.587.9117, adivineevent.com) in Atlanta

Housemade hot pretzel rolls with assorted mustards, heated over river rocks, by A Thyme to Cook (877.849.6386, athymetocook.com) in North Stonington, Connecticut

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.

At the Park Avenue Armory, Tommy Hilfiger fashioned an elaborate set that resembled a gated garden. The showing of his men’s collection on Friday (pictured) had café tables and chairs, and on Sunday evening, the seating switched out for benches to accommodate more attendees at the presentation of the designer’s women’s collection.

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

CasaBubble rents inflatable, modular spheres for events. Envisioned by French designers Frédéric Richard and Pierre-Stéphane Dumas, the transparent, pressurized bubbles can be used as V.I.P. areas, pop-up shops, dining spaces, and more in outdoor environments. There are five different models and the structures come with a wooden floor. Solar cells and battery equipment are also available.

Inflate USA's line of inflatable structures for events includes more than 30 different sizes and shapes, such as the Luna, designed to act as a portable bar area, and the Trident, a massive tent structure designed for concerts and expos that can be set up in less than five hours. The structures, which cost from $800 to more than $5,000 to rent, are all fully brandable.

At Stella McCartney's Resort 2013 presentation, a large cart overflowing with roses and peonies stood near the entrance to the venue. As guests left, they were given small bouquets or single stems as festive gifts.

For the City of Hope "Spirit of Life" gala in Los Angeles, Namevents turned a parking lot adjacent to Geffen Contemporary at MOCA into a dinner space meant to evoke a high-end nightclub. Guests sat in lounge areas with plush couches and blankets, and dinner was served on glass tables with programmable LED bases. On some tables, tall glass vases designed by Chris Matsumoto were filled with water and stones in colors that echoed the hues on the invitation.

Colorful eight-foot-tall letters spelling \"Love\" added to the 1960s ambience.

Macy’s returned to Los Angeles on Friday with its 30-year-old "Passport Presents Glamorama" H.I.V./AIDS fund-raiser fashion show. The event took on a "British Invasion" theme that saw dancers shaking their stuff in front of a colorful '60s-inspired backdrop.

One area was inspired by a 1960s London nightclub and was flush with neon hues. Buffets in the area were swathed in stretch patent vinyl.

Performers from the Lucent Dossier Experience circulated through the crowd.

During Simon G. Jewelry's launch of its eco-friendly line in 2010, held at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, pool performances by women dressed in white costumes doing ballet moves inside huge plastic bubbles floating on the water added drama to the evening. The performers were booked through Best Agency.

Another station had the directive "Express Yourself," and guests could apply temporary tattoos from Tattly.

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.

An over-size picnic table continued the warm-weather motif and provided a creative setting for the brand to showcase the brightly colored tableware in the Sandra by Sandra Lee collection.

Details for both shows from Tommy Hilfiger included gates branded with the designer’s initials set in iron and a square-shaped brick runway bordered with gravel and artificial maple trees.

Digital screens, including a retractable LED chandelier that draped the stage, displayed images such as the Eiffel Tower emblazoned with YMCMB (Young Money Cash Money Billionaires) logos. And 14-foot white cherry blossom trees stood sentry.

The "Shogun-Era Japan Circa 1600" area had a garden of oversize Bonsai trees.

Guests of the first Camp Groupon weekend stayed at the Swissôtel Chicago from July 6-8. Kehoe Designs spruced the venue up with thematic decor including lifesavers, boat paddles, and bundled logs.

At Warner Brothers Television Group's party to celebrate the opening of the studio’s new exhibit, "Television: Out of the Box," the arrivals carpet was striped to look like TV color bars.

Artist Gregory Siff created a step-and-repeat for the "Ciroc Cabana Club" Memorial Day weekend event.

The entryway for the New York event was a tunnel filled with smoke, projections, and audio. The sounds and images playing were of frustrated smartphone users, designed to contrast the setting inside.

As a fun way to incorporate color, and to serve as a step-and-repeat, organizers built a wall-like structure which displayed the World's Best Award winners.

A throng of A-listers made the trip to Oakland for the Moneyball premiere.

Vincent Drolet of Circo de Bakuza wanted to create a buffer zone between the real world and the event's surreal setting. At the entrance, guests walked through a curtain and were greeted with a projection of an eye that opened and closed. "We wanted to give them the feeling of walking into a cloud," said Drolet.