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In 2022, Meltem dreamt up, co-founded, planned and hosted the first annual Table Design Exhibition—Istanbul Capital of Celebrations along with fellow Turkish event industry powerhouse, Elmas Özler of Bluechip Creative Productions. Held at Raffles Istanbul, the highly publicized collaborative event brought together some of the world’s top international event planners and designers, who each presented a unique Istanbul-themed table design. The second edition event will take place October 31 through November 2, 2023, at Hilton İstanbul Bosphorus Hotel and will include panel sessions, keynote speakers and international judges. TABLE DESIGN EXHIBITION -ISTANBUL CAPITAL OF CELEBRATIONS
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For more information, visit tabledesignexhibition.com
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ELMAS ÖZLER Elmas Ozler is the founder of
“We started by creating an international project associated with our beautiful Istanbul, notes Elmas, when describing how she and Meltem collaborated on developing the Exhibition. “We didn’t consider our project solely in the context of weddings; it has added vision to the event industry for various invitations, corporate events, and special events. By combining Meltem’s dream with Bluechip’s experience and infrastructure, we think we have brought a very special project to our country. We believe that we have created an haute couture project that attracts attention in the international arena, coming from the hands of two businesswomen and positioning Türkiye as the focal point of ‘celebrations.’ Bluechip Creative Events, Turkey’s leading corporate event production company, serving thousand of national and international clients with design, installation, technical support and a host of other services.
The impressive list of international guest designers who descended on Turkey for the exhibition included 1 Nadia Duran, Australia’s leading event planner and designer, 2 Colin Cowie, South-African born, US-based party planner to the stars who recently planned and designed the wedding of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, 3 Tomas De Bruyne, world-renowned Belgian floral guru, 4 Ghada Blanco, Lebanese designer with royal weddings amongst her Middle Eastern clientele, 5 Sarah Young, Celebrity event designer from Malta, 6 Eddie Zaratsian Hollywood-based celebrity event planner and floral designer, television contributor, and author. Also in attendance were Peruvian superstar designer Arturo De Noriega, Filipino event stylist Gideon Hermosa (read more about Gideon on page 48) and Edgar Zamora, founder of Revelry Event Design, best known for his extraordinary Emmy and Oscar after-parties.
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