LOOK around and you'll find tents everywhere. Once limited to garden parties and golf tournaments, tent structures are showing up on city streets, in public parks, even attached to the sides of exhibit halls. But along with the diversity of tent ...
WHETHER they help keep guests dry or give a more permanent appearance to temporary structures, the latest accessories add style and functionality to special event tents.
MAKE AN ENTRANCE
Due to stricter safety codes and a desire for more upscal...
THE PERFECT WEDDING requires the perfect setting. And nothing offers access to a wider range of ideal sites than a tent. Peaked, pole, clear-top or kedered, the right wedding tent can turn a rustic, too-small or otherwise tricky locale into an ou...
It never climbed up on stage to snag a trophy, but a dramatic circular tent was a winner for superstar Elton John’s annual AIDS Foundation fund-raiser the night of the Academy Awards...
THE ARKANSAS TENT tragedy in October — in which three employees of a party rental company died after allowing a tent they were carrying to touch power lines — has focused the attention of the industry on worker safety. In this month's “Rental Ess...
TODAY'S AMAZING TENTS come in shapes and styles perfect for providing shelter, but they still sometimes need help in the decor department, experts say.
DRESS TO IMPRESS
“In the past, tents were bought in colors like red, blue and green, but man...
TIGHT SPACES, RIGID restrictions and daunting design directives. Behind every exceptional event tent is a tale of hard work and harrowing challenges. In these pages, tent experts share details from some of their most difficult — and gratifying —...
The deaths of three workers in Arkansas this month resulted from a practice that is common in the event rental industry, many say. The three workers died when supports in the intact tent they lifted over a fence touched power lines, electrocuting...
CHUCK MILLER KNOWS he's had a run of good fortune in his 24-year event career. His industry colleagues know it, too. “I've had a half-dozen competitors say, ‘You always have all the luck,’” he notes. “But to me, luck comes about because you're pr...
