Travel & Leisure added another annual bash to its already considerable slate of events with its inaugural design awards cocktail party at the Dia Chelsea Annex on West 22nd Street. Honoring outstanding design and architecture around the world, the awards recognized winners in 11 categories, including best museum (that would be the Museum of Modern Art) and best public space (Frank Gehry’s Millennium Park in Chicago).
To showcase the winners, T&L creative projects director Laura Aviva worked with Bernhard-Link Theatrical Productions to design an assortment of partitions that displayed photos or samples of the honored work while also helping to define a more intimate area for the party inside the annex’s raw space. Yauatcha in London, the winner in the best restaurant category for Christian Liaigre’s design, had the most unusual display, with rows of small shelves for samples of the restaurant’s macaroons, which were flown in for the party directly from London, and continually stocked by one of Olivier Cheng’s servers.
—Chad Kaydo
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To showcase the winners, T&L creative projects director Laura Aviva worked with Bernhard-Link Theatrical Productions to design an assortment of partitions that displayed photos or samples of the honored work while also helping to define a more intimate area for the party inside the annex’s raw space. Yauatcha in London, the winner in the best restaurant category for Christian Liaigre’s design, had the most unusual display, with rows of small shelves for samples of the restaurant’s macaroons, which were flown in for the party directly from London, and continually stocked by one of Olivier Cheng’s servers.
—Chad Kaydo
Read our coverage of T&L’s World’s Best awards...
Read our coverage of another event that had guests eating from a wall…
Read our Q&A with T&L's Laura Aviva...
At Travel & Leisure’s design awards party at the Dia Chelsea Annex , a display for winner Yauatcha had rows of small shelves for samples of the restaurant’s macaroons, which were flown in for the party directly from London, and continually stocked by one of Olivier Cheng’s servers.
A row of display cases with the magazine’s Baccarat awards lined the center of the space.
T&L’s Laura Aviva worked with Bernhard-Link Theatrical Productions to design an assortment of partitions that held photos or samples of the honored work.
