Robert Isabell, the floral designer and events planner whose shrewdly lavish esthetic helped create the buzz around Studio 54 and who made Kennedy weddings and a White House Christmas, not ...

Robert Isabell, the events planner and “big society florist,” as Hendrik Hertzberg admiringly called him in a 1997 Talk of the Town story, died last week at the age of fifty-seven.

Before Robert Isabell came along, New York parties weren’t truly Events. But he took entertaining to that next level. The tide had turned, surely, by August 1989, when, to celebrate the 50th ...

For an event in honor of photographer Annie Leibovitz in 1991 at the New York Academy of Art, Isabell complemented the building’s classical statues with nearly nude models that he had painted ...

It turns out recently-deceased party planner Robert Isabell liked to do stuff like that — he once covered the central staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with white tulips for an event ...

But Raúl Àvila is not just any event designer. Àvila, who counts A-list event planner Robert Isabell among his mentors, designed this year’s Tony Awards red carpet with a theme that feels ...