When it comes to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' annual Grammy Awards after-party, event producer Along Came Mary has an ace up its sleeve — its long-standing relationship with the academy. “We know them really well and they ...
Design Mind: Tony Conway, CMP, A Legendary Event, Atlanta, www.alegendaryevent.com
DIFFA Strokes: For a recent Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS fundraiser, Conway and crew created a nature-inspired “Fashionably Sustainable” table inten...
Ballerinas routinely wow audiences with their pirouettes, but San Francisco-based Ideas, The Special Event Co., showed some fancy foot-work itself for the San Francisco Ballet's January opening-night gala. Just two weeks before the gala, the even...
Tired-looking dance floors can get a fresh new face thanks to new removable gloss floor vinyl from Los Angeles-based Holo-Walls. Available in six standard colors--black, white, red, green, blue and yellow--the product is 3 millimeters thick to pr...
The "Crystal Chiavari" from OC Designs is manufactured from four patented injection molding processes, yielding a virtually completely clear chair, the manufacturer says. The chair, which features an adjustable flexing backrest, weighs 9 pounds a...
The new "Cirrus" fountain planter from Meese-Orbitron offers a colorful water-light show from within a compact, portable planter. The 2-foot-tall planter--made of strong, lightweight polyethylene--contains the SplashDance fountain system. The sys...
Create the look of a summer evening with outdoor lights from Firefly Magic that resemble the glow of fireflies. The lights, which can be powered either via solar energy or AA batteries, can be placed easily in bushes, trees and landscaping; each ...
In one of the roughest economies in memory, even long-standing fundraising galas are finding they must reinvent themselves in order to keep donations flowing in.
The event team behind the 11th annual Discovery Ball--held Saturday at the Califor...
Rochester, N.Y.-based Kwik-Covers has added the colors pink and lime green to its line of elasticized table covers, bringing the total number of solid colors available to 11 and prints to six. The line consists of "fitted" vinyl table covers with...
Baby, it's cold inside. When Dan Vazquez, CMP, president of Miami-based AOM Events, was tapped to design an 18-day holiday showcase for the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, located in Coconut Creek, Fla., his directive was to “create a holiday expe...
