Beautiful, Creative Tables at the Lenox Hill Spring Gala, 2023

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Posted by Tamara Stephenson November 08, 2023

Beautiful, Creative Tables at the Lenox Hill Spring Gala, 2023

the Makings of a Gala Table-

The Annual Lenox Hill Spring Gala, 2023

Today we share our tabletop design from the 2023 Lenox Hill Spring Gala, an annual fundraiser for the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. The event takes place in Grand Central Station's Cipriani ballroom each year where individual design teams create a table in this grand ballroom for guests to dine upon. The annual black-tie party is a fun evening, a cocktail hour followed by a sit down dinner with dancing and celebrating the folks behind this charity event. Let's not forget to mention a full press hour dedicated to oogling at and photographing these tables and honoring the design teams who put them together.

This year, I created bespoke dinner plates from of our new Lodge wallpaper collection. We channeled the private clubs and family travel harkening back to an old fashioned time.

Each year, we love mingling with the other designers and hearing their inspiration for their fabulous tables, and it is a truly beautiful, philanthropic and creative event where we have the pleasure to spend time with some of the country's most amazing designers, as well as local patrons of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. Please take a look at some of what we captured.