a little teaser...

The firm I work at is participating in SF's Dining by Design event this month (this is our third year!) so today we had a photo shoot at the design center and we mocked up a vignette of our table for this year. This has to be one of my favorite events of the year. Always a lot of prep work and stress, but we work so well as a team that it's always fun and we are always happy with the final product!

Below is our table from 2008's DBD...

Obviously the theme here was "Breakfast at Tiffany's". I loved the retro feel of this design. By the way, my boss custom designed those lovely folding screens which I then painted an gilded (I actually like painting, so it wasn't that bad at all and she helped me gild too). I think there were 14 all-together! My boss even threw in a "Special Thank You" to me on our page in the brochure for the event, so sweet!

Below (and not the best picture, but I couldn't find another one) is our table from 2007. The theme was, oddly enough, the 1960s version of the "The Prisoner", notice the numbered place cards on the table (Number 6: "I am not a number, I am a free man"). What can I say, apparently we were ahead of our time on pop culture trends, we had no idea they would re-make the original 1960s show two years later. I have a feeling if we had chosen this theme this year A LOT more people would know what it was than 2 years ago.

If you're wondering what I painted for this DBD, do you see the checkerboard grass? Well, you can't really see the awesomeness of it, but yes, I painted the checkerboard on it and it was quite a tedious process.