Washington DC

The Corcoran Gallery of Art added festive lighting for the holiday event.

At the Washington National Opera's Opera Ball this year, plush white carpets and white birch trees helped transform the Russian embassy lobby into a winter landscape.

At MSNBC's White House Correspondents' Association dinner after-party, banners promoting the network's shows and personalities hung between columns inside the Mellon Auditorium.

Giant teal BET letters fashioned from sequined velvet fabric served as the focal point of the BET Honors after-party in the Reagan Building atrium last January.