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Some 300 guests at the International Catering Association gala gather at the historic 200 Peachtree venue in Atlanta.
With its 'Art in the Park' theme, the Divine Event team creates tableaux vivants, including the famed 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Vermeer. Guests could step up to the model for an hors d'oeuvre.
Another famed painting: 'Whistler's Mother,' who is ready to serve you, as are ...
..the duo from 'American Gothic,' with farm-fresh appetizers.
As part of the art festival theme, the Divine Event team creates a street cart offering hot, fresh pork tamales.
Adding to the fun, street musicians.
After drinks and hors d'oeuvre in the 'Art in the Park' area, guests moved through a decorative archway into 'The Gallery'--a slightly surreal warehouse space featuring seven small-plate food stations.
So many museums have displays of fine furniture. Here, pretty chairs from CORT's Napoleon Collection, bearing a trio of salads: pickled petite red and yellow beets, red quinoa, and West African fruit salad.
Here, 'Still Life of a Rice Table.'
A closer view. The Divine Event team notes that this installation shows the power of the 'non-floral' centerpiece.
Inspired by 'Jack the Dripper'--Jackson Pollock--guests pick up a plate and then choose a sauce to partner with their ahi tuna via squirts and squiggles.
One 'dripping' plate.
A guest gets into the act.
Bento boxes--single-serving meals based on the Japanese word for 'convenience'--get their due at this station, which salutes the 'kyaraben' bento tradition of creating characters.
The Italian meatball--or polpette--gets the star treatment with this frame displaying famed Italian paintings along with famed Italian food.
An umbrella term coined in the late 19th century, 'Industrial Arts' covers fabrication in wood and/or metal with a variety of tools. Both modern and retro, this style presents a cool look--even with chefs wielding blowtorches.
The delicious result.
Keying on the bright colors and flat, comic book-style designs of the Pop Art style, this station presents its own piece of art--the 'cake' fashioned from push-pop containers. Can't see the cake? Keep looking ...
And here it is!
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