On Tuesday night, Bentley Meeker held a candlelit party at Gotham Hall in honor of his new book, Light X Design: 20 Years of Lighting. The lighting designer worked with Thomas Preti of Thomas Preti Caterers, who came up with the concept of floating food stations. Meeker and his team used thin black cables to suspend round Lucite tabletops from overhead truss. To keep them from moving, they tethered the tables to a counterweight on the floor underneath. The clean, round design highlighted the food and allowed guests to access it from all sides.
Hors d'oeuvres included a salad of feta, tomatoes, snow peas, corn, and cilantro in edible corn and lime spoons, lobster and gravlax terrine with black caviar and dill, wild mushroom flan, and shrimp escabeche and pickled vegetables in salt-rimmed square shot glasses.
