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Volkswagen at MoMA

Happy Spring! All of us at Bernhard Link Theatrical had a very busy time wrapping up our last year. We finished off December working with Van Wyck & Van Wyck to unveil the annual Pirelli 2012 calendar. This year Pirelli decided to throw an elegant black tie dinner gala for its launch at the Park Avenue Armory. BLT provided the custom stage for renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli's surprise performance. We also headed down to Miami with Van Wyck where we installed an outdoor, star-studded event that marked the grand opening of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort. 
 
Also kicking off our new year were projects for Macy's and Volkswagen. We were proud to fully produce the Macy*s (a sponsor of the American Heart Assoc.) Go Red For Women event dedicated to bringing awareness of heart disease to millions of women. For Volkswagen we built an elegant press event and cocktail reception at MoMA, that we converted into a banquet dinner in under ten minutes. Each custom made dinner table used was designed to be uplit from the inside to illuminate plexi tops. Our lighting in the adjacent outside garden further enhanced the atmosphere for exclusive guests.

BLT Crew Led by our Senior Production Mgr. Tom Williams

During February's New York Fashion Week BLT was once again the exclusive provider of scenic elements for the Theatre venue in the Tent Complex at Lincoln Center for IMG Fashion. A big thanks to our hard working crew, who worked tirelessly around the clock, bringing to life the tent venue that always provides fantastic diverse sets and runways.
 
We were very busy with Fashion in many other venues throughout the city as well. Teaming up with 373-NY, we built the scenery for Scott Sternberg's Band of Outsider's line. The theme of this show suggested the American Southwest, for which we constructed a three-dimensional, carved foam rock formation that we carefully hand-painted. Across town at the Park Avenue Armory, we joined forces with lighting designer, Jan Kroeze, to launch Tommy Hilfiger's collection. Over at St. John's Studios we worked in conjunction with Bureau Betak for the Helmut Lang and Derek Lam shows. For this venture we designed and built a fabric covered light box, which was suspended over the stage and used as the focal point for their show. Our lighting design for the Philosophy show at Avery Fisher Hall was a featured article in the Journal of Japan Association of Lighting Engineers & Designers, written by Yuke Nakase. We wrapped up a very busy Fashion Week with Proenza Schouler at the Kamco Warehouse, building a show that heavily relied on our featured NIVOflex flexible platform system. This transformed the warehouse into the producer's vision of an industrial chic space for the cutting-edge collection to be launched. 

We just finished up another busy Bridal Fashion season. Once again we teamed up with The Knot & WeddingChannel to launch their luxury bridal fashion experience at the Intercontinental Hotel. Additionally, we were at Kleinfeld's where we provided all staging, lighting and sound for collections presented by Dennis Basso, Mark Zunino, Henry Roth, and Isaac Mizrahi. Aside from our fashion projects last month, our in-house lighting designers worked with British producer, NP+Co at Cedar Lake to present Bombay Sapphire's House of Imagination. And just this past week we once again provided the scenery, lights and audio components for Parson's Graduation Gala at Pier 60, where we also installed the International Center of Photography's annual exhibit at Pier 60 the very next day.