With the holiday season drawing near… and a wacky themed party right around the corner, we’re doing everything we can to create a wonderful “holiday hallucination.” Yes, the client asked the company holiday party to feel like a real “drug experience.” Which included transforming some lifesized animals into groovy tables! Yes, the legs of the • Read More »
Celebrating 10 years of festive fun on Chicago’s Navy Pier, we were pleased to once again be decorating Festival Hall to help transform the massive space into a Winter Wonderland. With specialty theme Christmas trees and a kids’ train ride through Santa’s Village on the Reindeer Express! As well as a very special 24′ Anniversary Tree in • Read More »
With a striking room and a blushing bride, the Hotel Allegro became the ideal setting for an elegant wedding reception. Beautiful room. Beautiful Flowers. A spherical collection of red & orange roses interspersed with red hypericum berries regally topping a silver & crystal candelabra. An elegant statement.
With a family-friendly event, it’s always important to keep everyone entertained. And filling the expansive Ballroom at McCormick Hyatt is no easy task. But with a lot of collaborative creative work, the event came together as a mix of colorful fun, family activities and whimsical wonder. Get the corporate message across, in a fun way! • Read More »
With a large event coming up, we designed a large stadium facade entrance. The renderings were approved by the client and production began downstairs in our full-service workshop. It’s always rewarding to see the design sketch “come alive” as it goes through carpentry, assembly & finishing!
The “Emerald Gala” is an annual event to celebrate the “green” building efforts throughout the Chicagoland area. With such an emphasis, it is imperative that the decor elements hold to the same “green” initiative. Simple. Clean. Green. With fresh plants throughout, the “greeness” was quick to pervade the United Club at Soldier Field. From a special “green • Read More »
Throughout the years, every university needs to raise some much needed funds for capital improvements. Whether new construction or necessary repairs, it is vitally important for the ongoing success of any college. We were recently brought on to help a local Chicago University with their 2010 Capital Campaign. We not only took on design, decor • Read More »
With wonderful exhibits, relics, antiquities and thematic vignettes, Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry was the perfect location to host a “World’s Fair” theme event. With dramatic draping in the rotunda, and striking lighting throughout, the museum was transformed back to the days of carnival barkers & fan dancers!
Or at least for a “World’s Fair” themed event… In preparation of the upcoming event at the Museum of Science & Industry, our production crew created these wonderful highboy table tops. Specific to the theme, these colorful tabletops adhere to top of a standard highboy table… a striking & thematic alternative to a plain, linen-covered • Read More »
When hired for an event at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, the question is frequently how to decorate the venue without covering any of it’s existing beauty? How do you “out-reef” an already amazing Caribbean Reef and aquatic displays? Always ready for a challenge… we tackled it head-on by creating our own version with • Read More »