Event Draping & Cabanas

Fabric that finishes a room

Draping is the quiet workhorse of event design. It covers what guests shouldn’t see, splits a big room into the spaces you need and gives a stage or sweetheart table a clean backdrop. Cabanas take the same idea further and build a private room within a room.

Pipe and drape, ceiling and entrance draping

Our pipe and drape comes in light-absorbing black for back-of-house walls and stage backdrops, plain white for room liners and dividers, and royal blue, saturated red, sheened pink and metallic silver for color and glamour. Ceiling draping swags fabric across a room or tent to lower a high ceiling, and entrance way draping gathers white fabric into columns that frame doors and aisles.

Cabanas, flags and bunting

Draped cabanas wrap a four-post frame in gathered fabric for a private lounge in a ballroom or on a lawn. Sail top cabanas stay open on all four sides under a taut shade, and wood cabanas pair dark posts with white drapes for poolside VIP areas. For ceremonies and civic events, flags, banners and bunting dress stages, railings and balconies.

Planning your draping

• Walk the room first and list what needs hiding: service doors, storage, exit signs you can’t cover, and the bare walls.
• Light the fabric. Draping with uplighting at the base looks finished, while unlit fabric can look flat.
• Furnish each cabana with a sectional from our lounge seating so it reads as a room.
• Match the fabric to the event. Black suits corporate stages and panels, while white and silver suit weddings and galas.
• Measure the runs. Note the wall lengths and ceiling heights you want to cover, or send your floor plan and we’ll work it out.
• Keep fire exits clear and ask your venue about its fabric rules before you plan ceiling swags.

Draping and cabanas across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut

In New York City, draping does the heavy lifting in raw spaces. It lines Manhattan lofts and warehouse floors, splits hotel ballrooms for registration and dinner, and frames stages across the five boroughs. On Long Island, we hang ceiling swags inside backyard tents and set draped cabanas on Nassau and Suffolk country club lawns, working from our Farmingdale showroom, where you can see the fabrics in person. Sail top and wood cabanas head out to pool decks in the Hamptons, and we also deliver to Westchester and the Hudson Valley, New Jersey and Connecticut.