Category Archives: Events

Cheltenham Festival 2016

The Cheltenham Festival has grown to attract 250,000 visitors to the four day highlight of the jump racing calendar, with £4.1 million prize money contested across 28 races culminating in the Gold Cup. Arena Group supported Cheltenham Racecourse, a Jockey Club Racecourse, with the expansion of facilities to accommodate the increase in hospitality tickets.

 

The 125m long triple decker was the largest ever installed alongside the home-straight, including the 55m Arcus Long Run facility with cantilever balcony. This venue hosted hosting a range of bespoke private suites along with Silks and Chez Rous restaurants, for clients and guests of The Jockey Club, Needham and Needham’s, Keith Prowse, Front Runners. The structure incorporated full kitchen, bathroom and rear access facilities on all levels, along with Tote betting booths, phone charge points and cash machines.

The new two storey Guinness Pavilion combined a public bar with a VIP hospitality area overlooking the famous Guinness village, which incorporated a 756 capacity tiered clearview™ seating grandstand in the upper level to give great views over the finish line. Also facing the course on the ground level was an exclusive VIP hospitality sponsors’ suite for Betway, complete with Arena Deck viewing platform and tiered standings.

 

Spaceworks, Arena Group’s furniture hire specialists, provided a wide range of furniture across 22 areas of the Cheltenham Festival site, including The Jockey Club Chalet, Final Fence Restaurant and the Chez Roux Boxes. The array of furniture supplied from the company’s extensive inventory, included Bravo dining tables, white Olympus chairs and Chesterfield sofas.

 

 

 

Arena Group Takes Centre Stage at The Brit Awards

Arena Group provided extensive temporary structures, tableware and furniture for this year’s star-studded BRIT Awards in association with MasterCard, which took place at London’s O2 on the 24th February.

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The 2016 ceremony marked the 36th edition of The BRIT Awards, one of the music industry’s most prestigious events, and witnessed performances from Adele, Coldplay, James Bay and Jess Glynne. Arena Structures was called upon to supply a variety of temporary structures including the dining structure which is then transformed into the after party area , catering area and production offices. Arena Structures installed two 5m x 15m tents and one 3m x 15m tent to create a horseshoe shaped kitchen and catering area, which was positioned outside of the O2 dome.

Two 10m x 20m tents were also supplied by Arena Structures to create the main production office and the BRITS TV office, which included an Ogle Hog live video editing suite. The VIP and sponsors dining/afterparty area was created using a 40m x 35m TFS, which was constructed inside the O2 dome, to create a venue within a venue.

Arena Group’s Spaceworks and Well Dressed Tables division supplied a total of 2,600 covers of crockery, cutlery, glassware and furniture within the main arena and the VIP marquee.

Dan Bluff Arena Structures project manager, commented: “We work with the O2 on a number of different events, including the ATP World Tour, which means we’re familiar with the space available and the working practices within the venue. This allowed us to successfully construct a number of temporary structures within the venue, including a temporary VIP

party area, which enabled organisers to host pre and post celebrations on-site. We’re delighted to be able to build on our longstanding relationship with The BRITS and to once again be involved with this brilliant event.”

Spaceworks and Well Dressed Tables managing director, Christopher Piggott, commented: “The BRITS is always such a spectacular show to be part of and we’re proud to have once again been involved. We supplied a range of our tableware and furniture to ensure the main arena and VIP marquee were dressed seamlessly to reflect the glamour and the elegance of this event.”

Well Dressed Tables announces strategic partnership with PKL Group

Well Dressed Tables has entered a new strategic partnership with PKL Group, with each company now providing clients an expanded portfolio of temporary kitchens, catering equipment and event catering infrastructure. July 2014.

 

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As the specialist tableware division to Arena Group, Well Dressed Tables supplies crockery, cutlery, glassware, furniture and linen to some of the world’s most elegant and exclusive events. PKL Group is the UK’s leading provider of outsourced catering infrastructure and temporary kitchens around the world.

Caterers can now benefit from the combined expertise, products and services, to optimise catering options for any size of event.

Chris Piggott, Managing Director of Well Dressed Tables said: “Both companies have decades of experience and the new arrangement gives clients access to comprehensive range of products, faster service and one point of contact whatever their needs.

“As part of Arena Group we can now provide every element from temporary structures, modular kitchens and catering equipment, to the finishing touches on the table with high quality crockery, cutlery, and glassware.”

Lee Vines, Director at PKL said: “The event sector is an important business channel for PKL Group and both PKL and Well Dressed Tables have many years’ experience in this sector. We are pleased to be working in partnership with WDT to offer customers a one stop solution for a wide range of event catering services, as well as being able to draw on each other’s experience of supplying event catering infrastructure for many years.”

PKL Group and Well Dressed Tables will be providing their clients access to each other’s range of products with further details available on their websites www.welldressedtables.co.uk and www.pkl.co.uk.

Brand new in!

Take the first peak at our brand new Tolix Chairs. Just in and they’re out on a major sporting event already!

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The Tolix Range comes in a choice of colours and styles, we bring you our newest range of bistro furniture. From high top tables and stools to bistro tables and comfy chairs, this range crafted from sheets of pressed steel is fun, quirky and lightweight but perfectly formed. Full range launching soon!

Fine dining at the iconic Olympic Velodrome

Spaceworks and Well Dressed Tables supported caterers The Recipe, at the first major event in the Velodrome since the London Olympic Games, March 2014.

 The finalé of Britain’s top track cycling competition ‘The Revolution Series’ opened the Lee Valley VeloPark, as 15,000 cycling fans enjoyed a thrilling weekend of races, featuring a number of Team GB medal winners from London 2012.

Event organisers Face Partnership entrusted Ed Watts, event manager at the The Recipe, to create a premium hospitality experience for sponsors and their guests. Led by project manager Jason Preston, the Spaceworks and Well Dressed Tables team supplied an extensive range of furniture and high quality cutlery, crockery and glassware for the kitchen, meeting rooms, VIP spectator areas and centre of the track.

The centre of the track was creatively adapted into a versatile event space, hosting a media centre during the race, before being transformed into a post-race dinner party for sponsors and their guests. A premium experience was required for the unique dining location and this was created with black padded seats, stylish Lubiana plates, contemporary Messina cutlery and elegant Cuvee glassware.

Project manager Jason Preston said: “A dedicated team was deployed to the site for the duration of the event across the weekend, to ensure smooth installation, reconfiguration of the event spaces, replacement of fresh catering equipment for dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings and de-rig.

“It’s not every day we create fine dining experiences inside world class sporting venues like this, but it was a spectacular setting for the event. Access to the venue was extremely restricted because the road leading into the venue wasn’t finished. We positioned the delivery vehicles on the outdoor cycling track and our team carried the equipment over 200metres into the building. In line with our environmental policy we utilised drip trays under our delivery vehicles in order to protect the surface of the track”.

*All images courtesy of Luke Webber.

At the Brits and we’re dancing on the tables!

Brit Awards 2014 VIP guests dined with Well Dressed Tables accoutrements, on Spaceworks’ furniture, enjoying pre-show hospitality and the after show party in an Arena Structures’ temporary venue within London’s O2 Arena, Feb 19th .

David Bowie, Arctic Monkeys and Beyoncé may have grabbed the headlines, but behind the scenes Arena Group was one of the team of suppliers contributing to a production worthy of its own awards.

Sister companies Well Dressed Tables and Spaceworks David Nicholas project managed the delivery of over 40,000 items of furniture and catering equipment ranging from the Champagne flutes and wine glasses to the white waiters gloves and water jugs for the more sober audience members. The main O2 Arena was transformed into a luxurious dining area for 1,500 VIP guests, with a further 980 VIP’s enjoying their pre-show meal in the temporary party venue. When these guests joined the show, David and his team cleared the room, resetting it for the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ themed after party. True to pop star party form, electronic dance stars Rudimental tested the Spaceworks tables’ strength to the max – with an impromptu celebratory tabletop dance. David, having completed his 8th Brit Awards, comments:

“Timings were planned very precisely, then on the day we collaborated with the O2 and Payne & Gunter teams seamlessly to deliver a spectacular event.”

Arena Structures has installed the temporary party venue within the O2 Arena since the Brits tenancy began there four years ago, augmenting the O2’s facilities to accommodate this gargantuan production. Project manager Dan Bluff’s experience underpinned the efficient delivery of the 40m x 60m TFS party venue for pre and after-show hospitality, along with a 20m x 25m media centre to host the large contingent of international journalists covering the Brits.

Black Velvet Ball 2012

Well Dressed Tables were delighted to support the first Black Velvet Ball organised by Off To Work. Bringing some of the industries finest folk together for an evening of masks and Irish style dining for the official launch of the new look London Irish Centre in Camden Square last month.

A day in the country, “Table Talk/Blue Strawberry“ Yearling Sale at Highclere Stud

For the first time Spaceworks & Well Dressed Tables were delighted to supply Table Talk/Blue Strawberry for one of their most prestigious events with furniture and tableware at the Yearling Sale at Highclere Stud, Berkshire. An event which is one of the most sought after invitations in the racing world, the setting had to be perfect.

Joanna Browner of Table Talk/Blue Strawberry commented;

“A huge thank you again, your whole team were simply brilliant… the vans arrived daily always on time, everything was perfect, and the team were so helpful especially with the location being very sensitive to noise and access due to the Horses… a total triumph all round….!!!”