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.)
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
The Women's Board Field Museum Gala
In October, the women's board of Chicago's Field Museum hosted a gala with a China theme. HMR Designs employed rosy-hued decor that included pink uplighting on pedestals lining the dining room. Frost handled the lighting.
Photo: Cheri Eisenberg
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.
Photo: JB Spector/Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Bloomberg and 'Vanity Fair' White House Correspondents’ Dinner Party
Bloomberg and Vanity Fair decorated the lawn of the the French ambassador’s residence for their celebrity-filled party after the dinner on Saturday night.
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/VF12/WireImage
Levy Lighting used string lights to illuminate an outdoor tent at a private Labor Day party in East Hampton, New York.
Photo: Courtesy of Levy Lighting
