ed design: 2007 HBA Eco-Friendly Packaging Finalist - (PPT)

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Published: November 29, 200Published: November 29, 2007 ONE mark of a really good party has always been an almost biblical catalog of waste and excess, lovingly expressed in gallons of Champagne, acres of fabric, plywood and red carpet, and jet loads of exotic flowers. But in a year dominated by talk of the green movement, such practices can be viewed not just as unseemly but as downright anarchic - and not in a good way. A Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum party was also decorated with recycled materials. Pity the party planners and designers who have to grapple with the new calculus - mostly for public institutions and organizations for which the benefit or awards gala is a yearly rite - and still make a shindig look as if it cost six figures. "Can a party be sustainably produced?" is a question asked recently by several of these planners and designers, whose work has often influenced ambitious party hosts at home. The answers they have come up with are both intriguing and confounding.