Synopses & Reviews
David Stark is one of New York’s most creative and sought-after event designers. This book explores forty of Stark’s elaborate yet eco-friendly events—corporate, non-profit, and private—with 200 exquisite photographs and descriptive text. Organized according to the designer’s quirky phraseology—“Animate the Inanimate” “Don't Take It So Seriously . . . At the End of the Day, It's a Party” “From Many Little Things Make One Big Thing” "It's Not What You Use, But How You Use It" and "Make Packaging the Prize"—this book is unique in both its presentation and its content. Stark considers his events “art installations” and when guests enter his spaces, that is exactly how they feel—surrounded by the kind of creative input and passion that can only be described as art.
Clients include Condé Nast Publications, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Hearst Corporation, Michael Graves, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Museum of Arts and Design, Rachael Ray, Tory Burch, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sephora, Sundance Institute, and Target.
About the Author
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, David Stark began his career as a painter before starting his own business as an event designer. His previous books include Napkins with a Twist, To Have & to Hold: Magical Wedding Bouquets, and Wild Flowers: Projects and Inspirations.
Table of Contents
HelloPreface
Say it Loud Say it Proud
Robin Hood Foundation 2006
+ Times Square Bat Mitzvah
Speak Volumes with a Whisper
Lowy Antique Frame and Restoring Company
Take a Classic, Make It Modern
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Animate the Inanimate
Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary
+ Sundance Institute 2006
Use the Tools of the Trade
Film Society of Lincoln Center
+ Whitney Museum of American Art 2008
It’s All About the Double Take
Walker Art Center
Lasso Something Personal
Hamptons Wedding
Don’t Take It So Seriously… At the End of the Day, It’s a Party
Coney Island Wedding
+ Circus Bar Mitzvah
From Many Little Things Make One Big Thing
American Patrons of Tate
+ Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids 2008
+ New Yorkers for Children 2009
+ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2008
Don’t Overlook the Obvious
Americas Society
+ Whitney Museum of American Art 17th Annual American Art Award
+ New Museum Opening
+ Museum of Art and Design
+ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2009
Use Words Literally
Museum of Modern Art
See Magic in the Mundane
Robin Hood Foundation 2007
Events Are Live Theater, Guests Are Actors
Target Bodegas
Don’t Overlook the Beauty in Your Own Backyard
Wave Hill Wedding
It’s Not What You Use, but How You Use It
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2007
+ Eco by Cosentino
Fall Down the Rabbit Hole and Enjoy the Ride
Target Bullseye Inn
Landscape the Party
Sundance Institute 2007
+ Campsite Birthday
+ JCPenney American Living Launch
Explode the Scale
New Yorkers for Children 2008
+ Travel + Leisure 2008 Design Awards
+ Design Industry Foundation Fighting Aids 2009
+ Museum of Art and Design 2007
+ The Huffington Post 2009 Pre-Inaugural Ball
+ Topiary Bat Mitzvah
Give It Up for Drop-Dead Chic
+ Wooded Wedding
+ Springtime Wedding
+ Summer Tent Wedding
+ Allure Magazine Best of Beauty Awards
+ Carnaby Street Bar Mitzvah
+ Pierre Hotel Bar Mitzvah
+ New York State Opera 2008
Make Packaging the Prize
West Elm Store Opening
A Life After the Party
Robin Hood Foundation 2008
Good Bye
Acknowledgments