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The “Facing Center” iPad centerpieces from Keep Interacting allow organizers to incorporate photos and other information into an event’s table decor. Launched earlier this year, the iPads display a slideshow of photos, product images, sponsor information, or other content provided by the event’s host ahead of time. Then, at the event, the company provides a photographer to take photos that are instantly added to the display. Using the touch screens, guests can also share the images on social media, send them via email, and order printed copies to pick up from a kiosk on site.

In Miami, the dinner tables at a Star Trek-theme vintner dinner—one of 17 celebrity chef-helmed events at private homes held as part of the 13th annual Naples Winter Wine Festival in January—offered centerpieces with iPads embedded on the sides that displayed the evening’s menu, updating as each course was served.

At the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Butterfly Ball in Chicago in May, the gala had a farm-like atmosphere. Tables were decked with miniature gardens potted with tomatoes, colorful peppers, asparagus, and kale; around the centerpieces, fairy lights in miniature Mason jars added to the elegant yard-party vibe.

The Starlight Children's Foundation hosted its Starlight Gala, sponsored by Toys "R" Us, at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel in April. The event’s circus-inspired ideas included dinner tables topped with miniature Ferris wheels that held cupcakes with colorful frosting.

Hundreds of balloons from Balloon Trix hung from the ceiling during the V.I.P. dinner. The space changed colour with each course, starting with blue, morphing to pink for the main course, changing to orange for dessert, and ending in red.

Gotham Hall's balloon ceiling

Friday's late-night dessert showcase doubled as the festival's fifth anniversary celebration, and, as a nod to this and title sponsor Godiva, a gilded Lady Godiva rolled around 82 Mercer handing out birthday hats.

Gallery A, the crown jewel of the gallery

"Oceanfront Nights," presented by Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time, showcased one of four cities each night during its run, with film, music, video, and live performances.

Ice chandelier

Ice cube wall installation

Designed by architect Rafael de Cárdenas, the modular structure of Nike Stadium is inspired by the soccer pitch. The international sports apparel company also opened Nike Stadiums in London, Tokyo, Milan, Paris, and Berlin.

The Blue Label room featured blue items, such as custom books and sofas.

Massivart organized a collection of interactive art installations including a giant Lite Brite created by local design studio La Camaraderie.

The installation consisted of four stylized, all-white rooms—a bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, and a dining room—each equipped with a tablet linked to the Play:1 app. Guests could pick a song to play, which the technology then analyzed based on elements such as beats per minute, pitch, and tonality to wash the room in a corresponding color and trigger ripple-like projections.

Guests were encouraged to take photos in the rooms to post to Instagram with the hashtag #SonosPlay. The tagged images were then projected onto blank canvases that hung on the walls.