Fashioned after a French discotheque, Cipriani 42nd Street was transformed into a pink-hued world of glittering excess, with ostrich feather chandeliers, diamond-strewn tabletops and a 30-foot fountain for the premiere of The Pink Panther.
Held at the Waldorf-Astoria, as it has been for many years, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Hot Pink Party filled the storied hotel's ballroom with its namesake hue. This year the April 30 fund-raiser saw more than 1,200 guests and paid tribute to the organization's founder Evelyn Lauder with the theme, "My Fair Evelyn's Dream." As part of this, the planning team and decor consultant Monroe Alechman incorporated the word "dream" into the evening's design, with gobos illuminating the walls of the dinner space.
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Chrystalline chandeliers added drama to the museum space.
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HBO Emmys After-Party
HBO's after-party took place at the Pacific Design Center's outdoor space. Real fire was used as a decorative element as 24-foot-long reflecting ponds showcased flaming sculptures. Inside the 120- by 100-foot dining pavilion, guests ate fare provided by Wolfgang Puck, including burrata and peach salad, New York steak, and doughnut bread pudding.
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The Warner Brothers International Television Distribution gala filled the Burbank lot with digital mapping, costumed entertainers, and an array of pyrotechnic stunts and decor.
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Porsche's Los Angeles Auto Show Party at Vibiana
Dinner and cocktails were also on tap at Porsche's party, where dramatic purple and red tones bathed Vibiana.
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'Entertainment Weekly' Pre-Emmy Party
The West Hollywood venue—decked with leaf-shaped projections from Felix Lighting—hosted celebrity guests like Aziz Ansari, Mark Cuban, Elisha Cuthbert, and dozens more.
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Digital mapping on Notre Dame de la Treille was a show in itself. The mapping displayed everything from large hands appearing to sketch the building to leafy green plants sprouting out of the facade. At the end, the church lit up like a pinball machine in bright colors. Throughout the show, sound effects included church bells, ghostly-sounding choirs, and creaky doors.
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The Museum of Science and Industry’s Columbian Ball
Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry hosted its black-tie gala, the Columbian Ball, on Saturday. The museum was originally built for the famous 1893 World’s Fair, and its history played into the decor. In the dinner tent, Heffernan Morgan Ronsley projected vintage photos of the museum onto cyclone-shaped fabric sculptures.
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Nickelodeon Mega Music Fest After-Party
At the TV channel's 2010 music fest in Brooklyn, Ultimate Lighting provided thematic gobos of the event logo and musical notes for the tent ceiling.
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'Phantom of the Opera' Anniversary Party
In 2013, The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its 25th anniversary with a masquerade ball at the New York Public Library. Inside, a projected image of the Phantom mask illuminated drapes. Low lighting in red and blue hues added to the eerie, almost ethereal look.
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Marc Wilson, founder of MWD Lifestyles, a New York-based event brand and design house, recommends "staying within holiday color schemes that are always in season around holiday time and largely embraced" to help keep costs down, especially when making bulk purchases.
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Jes Gordon/Proper Fun created a supper club atmosphere at Gotham Hall in New York for a recent bar mitzvah. Four-hundred luminaries filled with LED candles were hung from a large oval truss on the ceiling.
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When another Los Angeles museum opened from the Broad family in 2008, that fete too was inspired by the museum’s unique architecture. Producer Ben Bourgeois was behind the Broad Contemporary Art Museum’s bash, and he said he tried to to create an atmosphere in keeping with the museum’s architecture and artwork. The team brought in a contemporary 22,000-square-foot steel structure for the dinner, covering most of the surfaces within it in white Ultrasuede with 12 cube-shaped light installations, also covered in Ultrasuede, hanging above. The installations—done in the same red tone as the building’s now highly recognizable façade—included bottom panels lit using programmable plasma-screen tiles. (They also changed color throughout the evening.)
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Guests scooped up bites from buffets on Legends Plaza.
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The Field Museum Gala
In 2009, the Chicago museum hosted a blue-hued event to celebrate its diamonds exhibition. To underscore the theme, Frost created a video of falling diamonds that measured 50 by 660 feet.
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