Design Portfolio 2006 (Part Five)

This new illuminated bench doubles as a low table. The piece measures 12 1/2 inches high by 52 inches wide by 14 inches deep, and rents for $250. Available from Modprop.com.

Bruce Sutka of West Palm Beach, Florida-based Sutka Productions mixed lavender, silver, and crystal elements in the different centerpieces at the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation's Art for Life event at Russell Simmons's East Hampton home. In an arrangement of allium, tall chives mimicked the flower's long stalks and a silver-colored orb at the base repeated the flower's spherical shape.

When Rémy Martin hosted an editors' luncheon at Per Se in November, Grayson Bakula Design incorporated five industrial lements vital to the production of the spirit. A trough of glass containers held copper links, oak chips, glass cubes, ball bearings, and white limestone rocks—objects relating to the distillery, barrels, cellars, bottles, and bottling process.

Here's a painted wooden screen with sheen. It measures 78 inches high by 48 inches wide. Available for rent from Props for Today.