Decoration

With Andy Warhol art on the walls of the atrium, Eric Michael and Jack Lucky used a 1970s-inspired color palette of bright orange, yellow, pink, and neon green. Perfect Settings provided linens in each of these colors to create alternating color blocks from table to table.

Yours Truly Lighting and Decor added an ambience to each room with uplighting, plus texture gobos, in a few spaces in the same color palette.

The Rotunda had a Mexican-themed look with white and gold linens accented by tall green, red, and yellow tulip centerpieces on each table.

Playing off the purple walls of Gallery 2, the tables brought together purple, green, white, and lime-green elements accented by purple uplighting.

Each place setting had purple napkins atop blue chargers and white linens with a purple, orange, and lime-green geometric pattern. The short centerpieces incorporated the same colors with the addition of pink to further brighten up the table in the darker room. Moss-green chair covers and lime-green votive candles completed the look.

Gallery 4 is home to many classic paintings that feature the color blue. In turn, the three dinner tables had blue velvet damask linens with matching chair cushions. A similar damask gobo on the ceiling drew the eye upward along with the tall candelabra centerpieces of pink, purple, coral, and red roses.

Gallery 5 has numerous landscapes lining the walls that lent the space to a springtime theme. Though pink is commonly used in such cases, the team chose to go a different direction with peach and coral linens and chairs.

Small Lincoln Log-style wood boxes filled with pink, coral, and orange tulips, roses, and calla lilies topped each of the tables.

The green walls of the Large Mantel Room brought to mind the image of a garden. Living ivy walls, tree centerpieces, and birchwood chairs set against natural-colored linens created an indoor garden atmosphere.

Low-lying jasmine floral arrangements, purple votives, and plum linens added spots of color to the indoor garden ambience.

The team softened the natural masculinity and darkness of the wood walls in the Small Mantel Room by using a light color palette of white, light grey, and metallic linens and chairs.

The candelabras on each table held an unusual floral combination of white orchids and succulents—a combination of the masculinity of the room and femininity of the white flowers and linens.

The Salon Doré is the most inherently opulent of all the galleries with its gilded walls. Working with that inspiration, Perfect Settings provided red linens with sheer overlays and ornately decorated gold chargers and flatware.

Gold rosette chair covers matched the napkins on each place setting.

Organizers moved the main bar upstairs on the bridge of the atrium this year, which better served the wandering dinner guests as well as the attendees of the after-hours dance party Club Corcoran hosted by the young professionals group 1869 Society. Matching current design trends, blue and white chevron linens covered the front of the four-sided bar.

Blue and white hiboys matching the chevron print on the bar provided seating across the bridge during the cocktail hour and after-party.