Our Venetian Garden Party Black-Tie Table for the Lenox Hill Spring Gala
About Last Night,
Part 1,
Our Table Designs For
The Lenox Hill Spring Gala
Cipriani, New York City
on May 2, 2024
(part 2 next week showcasing
other designer tables at the event)
root cellar designs' Venetian Garden Party Table
check out our Behind The Scenes
Video Interview on
at the event
The annual Lenox Hill Spring Gala takes place at the gorgeous Cipriani on 42nd Street (a former historic bank from the turn of the century) in a grand ballroom with soaring ceilings, Greek and Roman columns and gorgeous architecture (there's a fireplace in the men's bathroom). Proceeds benefit the local, Upper East Side Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. Each year, almost 50 designers from around the country come out to don a table for the black-tie dinner and dancing fundraiser. For nine years we've been a part of the design team invited to create a table. It works out well since we debut our spring textile collection for root cellar designs on this day. We make certain to create a table that works with our new collection while coordinating with the event's yearly theme. This year their theme was, "Flights of Fancy" giving artists and designers lots of fodder for whimsical design, and the tables were an incredible array of beautiful wares festooned with birds, butterflies and botanicals. I hope you will stop back here next week for our full showing of all the tables including interviews of key tables during the gala by Miles Stephenson.
For today, we share with you our designs in its full glory and we hope to capture the playfulness and fun of the evening. It takes months for us to plan and build our display which we center around our new fabric collections. This year, we created an Othello-inspired Venetian Garden Party complete with copies of Shakespeare's play on the seats, handmade decoupage masks (we used our new wallpaper as the designs), a fresh lemon and lemon leaf topiary, orchids, ferns, an English bust, vintage Bob Mackey plates and our Boho Atelier collection of 1970s-inspired textiles as the table skirt, dinner napkins and upholstered seat cushions and backs It was great fun to put together, and we are grateful for all the attention put on our table design.
"Lenox Hill Neighborhood House was originally founded in 1894 as a free kindergarten for immigrants and is among the oldest settlement houses in the nation. At its core, the work has not changed since our founding—we still educate children, feed hungry neighbors, care for the elderly, advocate for vulnerable individuals and provide critical, comprehensive services to immigrants and low-income New Yorkers, helping them to gain the skills they need to strengthen themselves today and build a better community for tomorrow". -The Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Happy Nesting
XO Tamara
