The main stage inside Gallery 308 at Fort Mason—a large cultural center overlooking the San Francisco Bay—featured a plush green sofa, a patterned rug, and greenery by Natalie Bowen Designs. Bright Event Rentals provided furniture.
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A lounge by clean beauty company Beautycounter offered touch-ups and tutorials through out the day. Manicures and hand massages were provided by Parlor spa.
Photo: Kara Brodgesell
Miami-based Nuage Designs recently launched a new collection of table linens inspired by mixed metals. The sequin “Koi” pieces feature a texture and pattern similar to the fish skin and are available in white and silver, white and gold, beige and gold, and black and gold. The items range in price from $85 to $95, depending on the size of the linen.
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A sea of lights evoked one of the museum's features, a planetarium.
Photo:Â Unique Design Studios
In June, LancĂ´me hosted an artful party to launch its newest products in New York. A unique open tray, oriented vertically, was reminiscent of architecture or candlesticks. It offered bites from Pinch Food Design.
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“The way we’re displaying the product is almost museum-style or gallery-style, so we wanted to have more interesting, interactive, modern pieces floating in the space,” said St. Lifer of the colorful geometric floral installation in the makeup color room.
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Keeping on theme, the charger plates at each table setting featured the design of a moon.
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For Fox's premiere of its new show Cosmos, the network's creative services team produced an event in a transformed parking lot in Los Angeles's Griffith Park. In a Classic tent set as a screening room for the show's first episode, Kinetic Lighting created a cosmos-like look with full LED star draping. A Q&A session with the big-name folks behind the show, including Neil deGrasse Tyson and Seth MacFarlane, followed the screening.
Photo: Sean Twomey/2me Studios
The celestial look for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy Governors Ball in 2010 borrowed from the night sky. Starry decor transformed the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center for about 3,600 guests. Sequoia Productions, headed by Cheryl Cecchetto, produced the ball, where astrological signs inspired some of the decor elements.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
The Emmy Governors Ball got a look reminiscent of a starry sky.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
A 60-foot-wide elevated dance floor was the focal point of the 124,000-square-foot party space, and a six-foot-diameter mirror ball was suspended over the center of the platform.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
About 3,000 smaller mirror balls hung from the ceiling, creating the look of vast open skies.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
La Premier supplied the spherical white flower arrangements.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
A giant representation of a sun hung overhead.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
The massive dinner event drew about 3,600 guests.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
Silvery furnishings added sheen to the party space.
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography
Fiber-optic panels hung from the roof of the City of Hope gala tent to create the look of a starlit sky.
Photo:Â Line 8 Photography
Whiskey was served from a moonshine-like presentation from sponsor Stillhouse.
Photo: Line 8 Photography
Up close, the disco balls also created a hazy 3-D lighting effect.
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HMR Designs used light as a central element of decor. At the entrance, mirrored shards illuminated in blue stood before a dark tunnel that led guests to the cocktail reception.
Photo: Bob and Dawn Davis
"During dinner, planes of light and hand-tied wire patterns that projected light striae ... visually transported guests into a future periphery," Patel said.
Photo: Bob and Dawn Davis
Metallic Tubing
At the Tate Americas Foundation's Artists Dinner in 2013, designer David Stark filled the raw event space Skylight at Moynihan Station with industrial elements. The cocktail area included giant metallic tubes decorated with florescent lights that changed colors.
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Branded Signs
During the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner weekend in 2012, Google and The Hollywood Reporter hosted an event that welcomed guests with an alphabet-board sign.
Photo: Daniel Schwartz
One of the many Chinese cuisines served was the "drunken" chicken salad with fresh soybeans and Shaoxing wine gelée.
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Guests enjoyed various delicacies, including pickled cucumbers.
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Since the party was set in the sand, a shoe check was available, allowing guests to drop off their shoes and enjoy the event barefoot.
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Waiters at the entrance served Chinese-inspired cocktails, including a martini made with Absolut Mandarin.
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A traditional Chinese dragon entertained guests.
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Tiki torchs lit the walkway to the beach-the main event setting--that was illuminated with red lights, courtesy of Southern Audio Visual, and scattered with tables draped in red, the color of good luck, provided by BBJ Linen.
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Dessert selections included tofu cheesecake, coconut custard tart, green tea meringues, and more.
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Midway through the night, guests were treated to a lively Chinese drum and dance performance by members of the John Wai Kung Fu Academy.
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A Chinese dancer accompanied by two drummers welcomed guests at the entrance to the Mandarin Oriental Miami.
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Floral arrangements featured a mix including Chinese lantern plants, magnolia leaves, and apple branches.
