
Jeffrey Foster of Event Creative designed custom-built tables and props, including glowing baseball-diamond-shaped tables and a scoreboard that hung above the dance floor for a baseball-themed bar mitzvah in Chicago.
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Night Vision Entertainment created a "shoe chandelier" for this year's N.B.A. All-Star Game in Orlando. The design featured 22 pairs of Adidas Superstar shoes hanging from the ceiling in a spiral configuration.
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The producers of St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School's sports-themed auction in 2010 tapped commercial sculptor A.J. Strasser to create oversize models of sports-related objects.
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Each table's focal point was an oversize fabrication of sports-related objects from commercial sculptor A.J. Strasser.
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A concession stand selling St. Patrick's-branded stadium blankets and pennants stood outside the gym's entrance, next to a display of decorative trophies and a popcorn stand.
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Passed hors d'oeuvres at the silent auction included coconut shrimp on a stick.
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A striped awning gave the bar in the school gym—manned by a bartender clad in a referee uniform—a sporty look.
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Team Up's Players' gala, which took place in Toronto earlier this year, featured food stations inspired by athletes.
Photo: Graig Abel Photography