Tent on ice

April 1, 2013  |  Project Briefs, Tent Décor

Built within a tent, the BLU Ice Bar and Lounge on Lake Superior draws a chill crowd. Birds may fly south for the winter, but one Minnesota resort is luring tourists north—with an ice bar built within a tent. In its third season in 2012–2013, the BLU Ice Bar and Lounge at Grand Superior …
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Majestic mountaintop wedding

April 1, 2013  |  Project Briefs, Tent Décor

Clifton Park Rental Center creates an enchanting Adirondack-style wedding on a mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y. More than a quarter mile of winding driveway up a mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y., Clifton Park Rental Center, Clifton Park, N.Y., created a high-end, rustic Adirondack wedding fitting of its m…
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Tables and chairs go au naturel

April 1, 2013  |  Features, Products, Tent Décor, Trend Watch

Functional and aesthetic—tables and chairs provide structure and warmth to an event. By Amir Hussain Tables and chairs are the bones of an event. They provide the foundation upon which the rest of the event can be built. While glitz and glam still have their place, these important furnishings …
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Backyard event with a labor-intensive installation

April 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Project Briefs

A backyard tented wedding rehearsal dinner involved installing two flights of stairs. Before his clients could walk down the aisle, Tommy Wilson and the crew from All Occasions Event Rental, Cincinnati, Ohio, had to walk down a couple of flights of stairs, along with everything required for a backya…
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Tackling the events others turn down

April 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Industry News, Project Briefs

No event is too big, too small or too crazy for Tents Tents Tents. For William Flynn and his crew at Tents Tents Tents in Cumming, Ga., “no” is not an option. “There is no event that is too big, too small or too crazy for us,” Flynn says. “We love to test our creativity…
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Pulling off the dream wedding

April 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Features

Island, beach, horses, dinner in the woods: pros talk about what they’ve done to help couples pull off the tented wedding of their dreams. By Meleah Maynard When people dream about their wedding, they don’t think about logistical details, like how all of those tents, equipment, people an…
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Strategies for festival tenting

April 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Features

Tenting for festivals calls for thorough planning to ensure a successful outdoor event. By Holly O’Dell When you’re providing tents for one of the biggest festivals in North America, you have to pay attention to the details. Calgary Stampede—a 10-day event in July comprising a rode…
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Equestrian event under a big red tent

April 1, 2013  |  Event Production, Project Briefs

Creative Tent International fabricates big touring structures for equestrian show. When a touring equestrian show needed a clearspan structure that could handle acrobats flying through the air, tens of thousands of pounds of suspended equipment and more than 2,000 spectators, it turned to Creative T…
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Eco-Tent for the Everglades

April 1, 2013  |  Features, Industry News, Project Briefs

TUUCI and the University of Miami combine expertise to build prototype structure for national park. Miami-based shade structure fabricator TUUCI Inc. has partnered with the University of Miami School of Architecture to design and build a prototype “Eco-Tent” for the Florida Everglades Na…
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Big top wins big honor

February 8, 2013  |  Industry News, Project Briefs

A 40-meter circus big top built for the 2012 Australian Circus Tour by Baytex Manufacturing Co. Ltd. won an Outstanding Achievement Award in tent manufacturing and design for the 2012 International Achievement Awards (IAA). Designed to complement the tour’s existing 24-meter foyer tent, the ne…
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