
Tables with umbrellas, an enormous photo backdrop, and warm projections turned one section of Microsoft's press preview into an outdoor café. The decor for the event during Internet Week in New York also included a few potted trees and mini buckets of sunflowers.
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Creating a garden within a garden for the Chicago Botanic Garden's Summer Dinner Dance on June 21, HMR Designs hung birdcage chandeliers strung with white lilies and covered poles with trellises in the dinner tent. Banners decorated with botanical prints of flowers added to the look.
Photo: Courtesy of the Chicago Botanic Garden

It may have been warm outside when Absolut introduced its Orient Apple vodka flavor in 2011, but that didn't stop the brand from turning an indoor gallery into an apple orchard. The New York launch event involved 7,000 square feet of sod, live trees, and barrels of apples, as well as picnic rugs and tree stumps.
Photo: Gustavo Campos