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For a private event, Preston Bailey designed a carpet-like installation filled with hundreds of purple and golden blooms, covered with Plexiglas.

At the third annual “Most Wanted” fashion event in Toronto in 2009, varying silver and glass vessels filled with purple flowers—inspired by the Four Seasons Hotel George V Paris’ famous lobby floral displays—topped a table in the reception area.

At the Essence Black Women in Music pre-Grammy awards party in Los Angeles in 2014, a black-and-white chevron pattern popped against purplish lighting.

At the Chicago party to celebrate wrapping the 25th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, three-dimensional numbers under bold draping and lighting marked the milestone run.

At Toronto’s Catwalk Cure event in 2011, a greeter rode atop a white horse with a purple mane.

At Essence magazine’s Black Women in Hollywood awards luncheon in Los Angeles in February, vibrant purple and white flowers topped tables in the dining room and cocktail space.

A purple tent held a pop-up restaurant from the caterer Ridgewells at Washington Business Journal's Book of Lists celebration in 2012.

The party included a dessert table with home-baked sweets all in a purple color scheme, arranged under a purple bunting.

Guests entered the after-party following Macy’s Glamorama event in Los Angeles in 2010 through a purplish walkway with a matching neon sign bearing the event’s name.

At the Boys & Girls Clubs “House Party,” in Boston in 2010, tent decor included contrasting purple and green linen-topped tables.

Corus Entertainment and Astral Media celebrated the launch of HBO Canada at 2008 party, where event decor included purple couches alongside mirrored cocktail tables and zebra-print carpets.

At the annual gala for the Tampa-based Ryan Nece Foundation in 2011, candy and cakes in purple and blue decked a dessert bar.

At the Joffrey Ballet's “Cindy's Having a Ball” luncheon in Chicago in 2010, diamonds, rose petals, and purple linens decorated the tables, which had been preset with popovers and rosemary-flavored purple butter.

Paula Biggs, creative director and stylist at Frog Prince Paperie, designed a purple baby shower with centerpieces made from bundles of lavender on lace handkerchiefs. At each place setting, baby's breath decorated napkins tied with purple ribbons. A gift of lavender-and-lemon salt scrub served as a takeaway.