Sport

Ahead of March Madness, Marriott International—the official hotel partner of the N.C.A.A.—hosted a basketball-theme breakfast at the Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel's R Lounge in March. The event featured basketball-theme floral centerpieces by Olga Sahraoui, as well as brackets for attendees to fill out. The hotel handled event production in-house.

At the 2012 Hudson River Park gala held in May at the Hudson River Park in New York, Matthew David Hopkins of 360 Design Events created centerpieces that incorporated running shoes and bicycle wheels.

M.L.B. Assembly was an inaugural multi-day pop-up event that showcased designers, artists, musicians, and athletes in an exhibit curated by the league and advertising agency DMA United. The event took place from July 13 to 16 at District Pier at the Wharf in Washington during M.L.B. All-Star Week. Field by Snarkitecture, an interactive architectural installation made of baseball bats and wooden billets, was on display outside the venue.

Visitors were able to wander through the field of Louisville Slugger bats. On the other side, a lathe operator was creating bats from the wooden billets, which were then added back to the “field” as completed bats.