Vanity Fair and Bloomberg returned to the residence of the French ambassador for their joint annual post-dinner party Saturday. Light features on the lawn served as an eye-catching entrance.
For the Chicago Botanic Garden's Antiques & Garden Fair Preview Evening April 23, Jewell Events Catering brought in striped, color-themed appetizer carts.
For an upscale camp-themed affair, KG Fare Catering & Events offers a mess-free take on s'mores, displayed on clothespins.
Industrial elements dominated the Tate Americas Foundation's Artists Dinner on May 8. Designer David Stark used giant metallic tubes, florescent lights, and galvanized metal accents in New York's raw event space Skylight at Moynihan Station.
Held in Chicago on May 18, the ball had comic-book-inspired decor from Kehoe Designs. A cartoon-like, illuminated city skyline served as a fitting backdrop on the stage where comedian Martin Short performed. Crystalline centerpieces were meant to look like fallen kryptonite.
Event Creative did the decor for Chicago's Steppenwolf Gala in early May, bringing what designer Jeffrey Foster called a "dark and sexy" decor scheme to a raw event space. Arty light fixtures featured lightbulbs in wire spheres, and strands of lights hung from the ceiling.Â
The American Cancer Society hosted its Key Gala in Boston at the Park Plaza Castle on April 4. Geared toward a crowd of young professionals, the event had a late-night menu from the Catered Affair. Laid-back snacks included hot pretzels with ballpark mustard.
Nike erected a three-day installation in Gansevoort Plaza during Fashion Week to celebrate the launch of its Nike Free Hyperfeel running shoe. Produced by Aramique Krauthamer, founder of production company Odd Division, which specializes in interactive and immersive media, and Web and installation creator Jeff Crouse, the black-on-black temporary structure featured a tactile labyrinth comprising barefoot experiences that amplified nature. Three distinct physical spaces made up the labyrinth, which replicated common running surfaces like stone, sand, and grass. Equipped with neuro-headsets, visitors produced their own audiovisual installation—informed in real time by the brain's sensory reaction to the textures underfoot.
At Ply Gem’s 9,000-square-foot exhibit for the 2013 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, MG Design created a homelike booth that showed off hundreds of exterior building products and celebrated the brand’s 70-year history. The space also had a theater along with a two-story deck that housed a kitchen, Âprivate meeting space, and a fireplace.
About 3,500 people attended the 18th annual dinner October 25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. All guests walked through the "sponsor experience," where a chandelier spelled out "thank you" when viewed from the right angle. Hargrove was the event's designer and general contractor.
