![Vintage style marquee](/images/top/case_small.jpg)
Vintage Marquee Party
![Vintage marquee party](/images/case/frengly/vintage_marquee_party.jpg)
An open sided marquee filled with vintage furniture and accessories from the turn of the C19th/C20th and a lovely subtle colour scheme
![Marquee attached to the house and spanning garden decking](/images/case/frengly/looking_back.jpg)
Attached to the house and spanning garden decking, the marquee creates a continuous party space from the kitchen all the way to the end of the garden
![Vintage polaroid camera and Art Noveau style sign](/images/case/frengly/take_photos.jpg)
An ancient polaroid camera looked the part and allowed guests to take photos for posterity. The PLEASE TAKE PHOTOS sign is in Mackintosh Art Noveau style
![Table of vintage items and traditional flowers](/images/case/frengly/victorian_items4.jpg)
A table of found vintage items and traditional English flowers: Roses, Peonies, Lavender and Rosemary
The occasion: was a fiftieth birthday party.
The venue: a small urban garden in London with a quarter of the space taken up by wooden decking.
The challenge: to create a stylish party in a small and quite awkward space.
The solution: A 4m x 6m (14' x 30') small open sided frame marquee which spanned garden decking and attached to the house, creating a long space for the party. For style, a turn of the ninteenth and twentieth centuries theme was chosen. This very particular vintage syle was the idea of event stylist Gina Geoghegan:
“The client really liked Rennie Mackintosh and that style of design, so when I designed the bunting I took his designs, as well as William Morris, and so I also thought it made sense to bring those designs and that era to life through moments of still life as well — thus the flowers arrangements on the tables and furniture.”
(Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect and designer involved in William Morris’s Arts and Crafts movement. He was also a proponent of the Art Nouveau style).