Rembac utilized the driveway of the house to set up a step-and-repeat, created with hedges that aligned with the event's garden party atmosphere. Signs hung on the hedges displayed the company logo as well as the event hashtag, #SterlingTurnsTen, which Rembac promoted among invitees prior to the party resulting in 75 posts—a satisfying number for the boutique firm.
Photo: Courtesy of Sterling Engagements Inc.
At Morgan Manufacturing's party in Chicago in December 2014, Event Creative designer Leslie Zaksas used fresh greens to decorate the venue's chandeliers for a festive feel and smell.
Photo: Eric Rademacher
The seasonal greenery also appeared as table decor, along with lanterns and goblet-style votive candlesticks, complementing the rustic vibe of the dining space.
Photo: Eric Rademacher
For a private holiday party, held at 26 Bridge in December 2014, New York-based event firm Rock Paper Scissors Events created a winter wonderland with a ski-lodge-type lounge, a snow machine, and a "forest" of hanging ornaments filled with chocolate truffle favors.
Photo: Elizabeth Bruneau
The card-making area included lots of supplies and a workspace for creating festive greetings.
Photo: Elizabeth Bruneau
Ravinia Gala
The 2011 Ravinia Gala in Chicago celebrated the music of George Gershwin through a concert, but also through catering. The first course from Food for Thought Chicago, called the "Cuban Overture" after the Gershwin song, was shrimp ceviche with mango-jícama salad.
Photo: Patrick Gipson/Ravinia Festival
When, in 2010, Bell Canada marked its first year in a five-year funding commitment to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the telecommunication company's gala was designed as a journey through lush English gardens. This included surrounding an ice sculpture with bear- and deer-shaped topiaries in the reception space at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Photo: Emma McIntyre for BizBash
Channeling English gardens as a nod to the "AngloMania" exhibition, the 2006 gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute placed tables in mini garden plots, dividing the museum's Englehard Court using espalier apple trees surrounded by blooming bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, and ferns. Moreover, grass covered the floors, 30-foot-tall spirals of wisteria vine wrapped columns, and the dining tables were bare willow wood.
Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the reception, organizers used tall faux hedges from other lounges on the show floor to add privacy to the entrance.
Photo: Courtesy of Emerald Expositions
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario's True North Gala
The Spinal Cord Injury Ontario celebrated its 70th anniversary on October 15 with a gala at the Grand Luxe Event Boutique. The stage was the focus of the ballroom. "We wanted people to feel like they were at a cottage up in Muskoka in Ontario or in Flin Flan, Manitoba," said event manager Lynn Mineque. "We had a dock as an extension of the stage and had live trees and a man-made pond surrounding it." To the side of the dock was a 16-foot canoe, which was part of the live auction.
Photo: Johanna Carlo
Diffa's Dining by Design New York 2015
Inspired by the ceramics of South African artist Ruan Hoffmann and murals by Rebecca Rebouche, interior designer Alexis Givens created a moonlight feast setting for Anthropologie at Diffa's Dining by Design event in March. The ceiling covering was made from bright blue-painted recycled plastic bottles, and pink flowers decked the tables.
Photo: Cornelia Stiles/BizBash
The Chicago Botanic Garden's Summer Dinner Dance
In June, Event Creative gave the summery gala a blue-and-white decor scheme. Bunches of pale blue hydrangeas decorated the dinner tables.
Photo: Robin Carlson
Tropical Accents
The Museum of Modern Art's annual Party in the Garden in 2013 had a modern, tropical vibe. Inside the lobby and atrium of the New York event, exotic, lush greenery and pops of neon stood out against a stark white background.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
![Los Angeles-based Sterling Engagements hosted its 10th anniversary party on September 12, inviting former, current, and prospective clients to the private residence of client, and Lakers player, Jordan Farmar. 'We tried to keep it intimate while still incorporating all those [clients] that were near and dear to us along our journey of the first 10 years,' said Alexandra Rembrac, the company's principal and creative director.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2015/10/sterling_6.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
Los Angeles-based Sterling Engagements hosted its 10th anniversary party on September 12, inviting former, current, and prospective clients to the private residence of client, and Lakers player, Jordan Farmar. "We tried to keep it intimate while still incorporating all those [clients] that were near and dear to us along our journey of the first 10 years," said Alexandra Rembrac, the company's principal and creative director.
Photo: Courtesy of Sterling Engagements Inc.
Use unique structural containers to show off a few impactful blooms for a modern, artistic look, like the creation by Blueprint Studios that features butter yellow calla lilies and Billy Ball flowers.
Photo: Michelle Nicole Photography
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.
Photo: Nilaya Sabnis
GBK Golden Globes Gift Suite
GBK hosted a lounge including gifts and services on Friday and Saturday at the L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Photo: Courtesy of GBK
Tommy Hilfiger
Details for both shows from Tommy Hilfiger included gates branded with the designer’s initials set in iron and a square-shaped brick runway bordered with gravel and artificial maple trees.
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage
Tommy Hilfiger
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.
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
Real tree branches and miniature faux tree centerpieces were part of the garden motif.
Photo: Lucien Capehart
With less than three hours for set up, David Beahm and his team converted Saks Fifth Avenue's third floor into a veritable garden of Eden.
Photo: Jeff Thomas/ImageCapture
For additional seating, plush velvet couches lined both sides of the cocktail area. Candles and small plants decorated the tops of the mirrored tables.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
The Parrish Art Museum's Midsummer Party
In the Hamptons, the Parrish Art Museum's Midsummer Party included dinner in an ornate tent. Overhead, a leafy projection and twinkling rope lights contrasted with a more high-tech lighting rack, which produced a dancing effect.
Photo: Patrick McMullan/PatrickMcMullan.com
With the tagline, "Where the grass is greener," the March 2013 gala dinner and auction for the Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School had a garden theme. Rather than using live plants, Peggy Young & Associates covered the Santa Cruz, California, school with artificial turf, including the dining tables and the auction display where guests searched for items amidst the faux grass.
Photo: Courtesy of Peggy Young & Associates
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
After hosting the reception on the elevated park, the Friends of the High Line took the dinner portion of its 2010 summer benefit in New York inside the Phillips de Pury & Company gallery. The decor from Van Wyck & Van Wyck was designed to give the various rooms of the gallery a continuous look reminiscent of the High Line and included a 600-foot-long strip of foliage suspended overhead.
Photo: Roger Dong for BizBash
To create a forest scene to display Louis Vuitton's collection at its Saks Fifth Avenue concept store launch, David Beahm used five kinds of mosses, built life-size trees using branches wound around metal frames, and decorated the area with other leafy plants.
Photo: Jeff Thomas/ImageCapture
A parklike scene with swings, croquet, trees, benches, lampposts, and grass formed the casual vignette at a New York gallery for Google's November 2010 launch of Boutiques.com.
Photo: Allan Zepeda Photography
In 2005, Avon created an indoor park to preview its Mark line of cosmetics. A wrought-iron gate opened to four vignettes, which included a small faux maple tree with orange and red foliage and teardrop-shaped glass candleholders suspended from the branches, red umbrellas hovering over a wooden park bench and moss-covered pedestals, and warm yellow lighting.
Photo: Jamie Watts
Green: Nature, Health, Renewal, Growth, Healing, Harmony
Lush canopies of natural greenery popped against neon green Lucite tabletops at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2013 Party in the Garden benefit in New York.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
Green: Nature, Health, Renewal, Growth, Healing, Harmony
At the Greater Washington, D.C., chapter of the National Association for Catering and Events’ annual fund-raising gala in 2012, the Emerald City Lounge was aptly colored and had an eerie feel.
Photo: Evelyn Alas
In 2012, Tori Spelling and J.C. Penney celebrated the launch of the star’s line for kids, Little Maven, in Los Angeles. The glamping-style event included a sweets table where the dessert offerings sat upon rustic wood slabs.
Photo: Michael Simon/StarTraks
