Chicago Botanic Garden's Harvest Ball
The Chicago Botanic Garden hosted its fall fund-raiser on September 19. HMR Designs handled decor and aimed to bring an "outdoor garden party" look into the tented dinner space. A tall potted ficus tree was placed at the center of the space, and Frost provided overhead string lights. Tabletop decor included silver-speckled glass, votive candles, and lanterns in various sizes. Floral arrangements held succulents, white hydrangeas, and orchid blossoms with autumnal accents of artichokes, black grapes, berries, and seasonal greenery. Teak wood troughs surrounded by birch bark held the arrangements.
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Botanic Garden
The J. Paul Getty Trust awarded the third annual J. Paul Getty Medal to architect Frank Gehry at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on September 28. Ben Bourgeois produced the event with a unique ceiling treatment inspired by architecture: A series of angular gray frames outfitted with neon tubing illuminated guests, and also made the entire ceiling glow as their reflections bounced off the clear-top tent.
Photo: Ryan Miller
For the Washington National Opera benefit, organizers created a canopy to hang over the middle section of the patio, with tents flanking it. The canopy’s design featured a geometric look—in keeping with the building architecture—with perforations that allowed guests to see through to the night sky.
Photo: Yassine El Mansouri
In 2013, Hermès hosted its “Les Jeux d’Hermès”—or Hermès games—in Palm Beach, where a croquet field section of the party space sat beneath colorful tenting inspired by the brand’s famous prints and scarves.
Photo: Matthew Carasella
The teepee-style tents can hold as many as 400 people.
Photo: Carl Sadd
Absolute Tent and Event Services
Absolute Tent and Event Services is the first company in Toronto to offer the Stretch Tent. Available for rent or purchase, the waterproof tent can be stretched and wrapped around trees, structures, or rocks. Absolute has three sizes (20-by-30, 30-by-30, or 40-by-40 feet) of the tent and will install it onsite.
Photo: Courtesy of Absolute Tent and Event Services
Tent companies cite an increase in requests for the Arcum tent, which has an arched beam and provides an alternative look to the traditional clearspan structure. Hollywood Tentworks in Pacoima, California, constructed an Arcum tent at L.A. Live for the 2011 N.B.A. All-Star Game.
Photo: Courtesy of Hollywood Tentworks
Tentnology now offers downsized versions of its large SaddleSpan tents.
Photo: Courtesy of Tentnology
Raj Tents in Los Angeles and San Leandro, California, launched its Beach Chic line for outdoor events last year. The tents, built around the frames of the company’s popular Pergola and Pavilion tents, come with a sea-spray or turquoise exterior and blue wave valance. Additional decor options include crystal chandeliers, mirrors, and hand-carved furniture for lounge settings.
Photo: Courtesy of Raj Tents
In 2011, Sperry Tents (508.748.1792, sperrytents.com) in Rochester, Massachusetts, introduced the Sperry Pavilion. The bilevel unit has an ivory sailcloth top and wood framing, with a fabric cupola overhead that adds height to the tent as well as a unique design element. It can be fully sided and enclosed when needed.
Photo: Charlotte Jenks Lewis Photography
Technically, the Diesel tent was a roofing system—a structure that can support heavy weights a tent can't.
Photo: Keith Sirchio for Bizbash
BrownHot Events used Signature Systems Group’s "Seagrass" sisal carpet at the tent for Veuve Clicquot’s Polo Classic event in October.
Photo: Courtesy of EventDeck
