outside to inside

Surrounded by camellia trees, the promenade area was redone as a garden space, reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's classic La Belle et la Bête. The room highlighted Chanel's fine jewelry collection alongside flowers that shone with diamonds.

The design concept touched all areas of Skylight SoHo's 15,000-square-foot interior, including the hallway, which Target remodeled into a Parisian-style boulevard with lampposts, painted illustrations of buildings, and trees surrounded by benches.

GBK hosted a lounge including gifts and services on Friday and Saturday at the L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills.

At the Park Avenue Armory, Tommy Hilfiger fashioned an elaborate set that resembled a gated garden. The showing of his men’s collection on Friday (pictured) had café tables and chairs, and on Sunday evening, the seating switched out for benches to accommodate more attendees at the presentation of the designer’s women’s collection.

Digital screens, including a retractable LED chandelier that draped the stage, displayed images such as the Eiffel Tower emblazoned with YMCMB (Young Money Cash Money Billionaires) logos. And 14-foot white cherry blossom trees stood sentry.

Real tree branches and miniature faux tree centerpieces were part of the garden motif.

AFR Event Furnishings' Green Grass line includes sofas, benches, and a bar covered in artificial turf. The pieces make an eye-catching display for outdoor events.

The backdrop for the green-colored red-carpet arrivals area was a vertical living garden, which the organizers have created at previous iterations of the auction. This year, for the first time, the press wall incorporated found branches alongside palm fronds, moss elephant ears, phalaenopsis, air ferns, clovers, cabbage, Boston ferns, pitcher plants, staghorn ferns, asparagus ferns, busy ivy, English ivy, and lemon leaf. Many of the plants were replanted after the event.

Long, communal tables and lounge-like configurations provided more relaxed seating on the upper level. For centerpieces, the designer incorporated square-shaped canopies, illuminated by candles that hung from the leaves in glass cylinders. Gift bags from sponsor Cartier were placed on guest's seats prior to the start of the event.

The "Shogun-Era Japan Circa 1600" area had a garden of oversize Bonsai trees.

Guests of the first Camp Groupon weekend stayed at the Swissôtel Chicago from July 6-8. Kehoe Designs spruced the venue up with thematic decor including lifesavers, boat paddles, and bundled logs.

The guests seated at We Create NY and Input Creative Studio’s golf-theme picnic setting had the option of playing a quick round of putt-putt.

Input Creative Studio’s “Picnic Village” concept had a picnic basket in the shape of a house and a stylish blue-and-chocolate color scheme.

SLS Interior Design went with an urban theme that included a graffitied picnic blanket, skateboard-style mobile dining trays, and kitschy Solo cup wine glasses.

Clark Gaynor Interiors packed its picnic inside a small wine casket and made use of eye-popping color with a floral-patterned blue-and-green picnic blanket.

Alicja Truesdale Home went simple, with pops of red against a rustic palette of browns.

Michigan-based interior designer Corey Damen Jenkins opted for a Motown theme, featuring a suitcase decorated with photos of music legends and a trippy-looking neon-colored blanket.

Graphic design firm Alfalfa Studio looked to the event’s location for inspiration: Toy taxi cabs accented a colorful picnic blanket that displayed an outline of Manhattan created from iconic city imagery, and a construction-worker-style lunchbox functioned as the picnic basket.

Carrie Leskowitz Interiors made use of textures and patterns with a picnic spread inspired by the mountain town of Aspen, Colorado. Kravet and Ralph Lauren donated the fabrics used for the blanket, place mats, and to line the vintage suitcase.

The event was held at sunset atop the Scholastic building in downtown New York. An Alice in Wonderland-inspired mad tea party picnic created by Jerry Schwartz of the Garden Party came complete with a tiny table designed to look like a toadstool.