Open since September, Severance is a new venue in Los Angeles that its owners describe as an “interactive wine bar.” Owned by former Patina beverage director Evan Charest, the venue, which holds as many as 100 people for receptions, features a wine cart with 80 wines listed by terroir rather than varietal, allowing guests to see, touch, and learn about various soils from different regions. Other highlights include champagne served in large crystal punch bowls.
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Loews Hotels’ “The Queen’s Chalice”
The Favourite-theme cocktail features Pimm’s, Bombay Dry gin, agave, lemon juice, orange juice, muddled blueberries. The drink is topped with ginger ale and a mint cucumber garnish.
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Calla Lily chair, $323 per week, available throughout Southern California from FormDecor
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Tinsel’s 11th House Party
Tinsel Experiential Design held its annual party in New York on February 19 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. The theme of this year’s event was “Black Magic,” which was brought to life with on-theme light projections, candles, and vogue-ing ball performers. Tinsel produced and designed the event, while Stage Trip Productions handled the lighting projection design.
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'Essence' Black Women in Hollywood Awards
The magazine hosted its 12th annual Black Women in Hollywood awards on Thursday afternoon at the Beverly Wilshire. Intended to honor and celebrate Hollywood's most impactful African-American women, this year's honorees were Regina Hall, Amandla Stenberg, Kiki Layne, and Jenifer Lewis. Show development and production—including the overall design and fabrication as well as the eye-catching stage backdrop and set design—was handled by the Essence event team with longtime collaborator AGENC. The colorful floral design came from Bloom & Plume's Maurice Harris. "We are inspired by the women we celebrate and this year we looked at our honorees and what their message was in their work—especially how the roles they play speak to our community," said Jovanca Maitland, Essence's director of live events and experiential. "These honorees use their art as actors to shine a light on what may be affecting us in our community. These are topics that are tough to talk about but are important to the discussion. We are also creatively inspired by paintings, colors, and images that are of black culture."
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The Backcountry Hut Company launched its Great Lakes Cabin, a full-scale concept house, at IDS19 in partnership with Leckie Studio Architecture & Design. Visitors could enter the 670-square-foot home, which is envisioned as a modular cabin that could be delivered as a flat pack kit of parts. Custom design and build firm Flattery Design created the space’s landscape on site at IDS19, while AyA Kitchens debuted its latest line of cabinetry, AyA Elite, inside the cabin.
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