ABOUT SPECTACLE

The Art of a Good Evening

We design the conditions for a good story to begin.

Spectacle is an experience design studio working with people who understand that the right context can turn a conversation into a catalyst.

In short, what do you want your guests to feel when they walk into your event? What impact do you want to give? What memories do you want them to take? The best evenings provide a canvas for change, through conversation and play.

A place setting with a hand-drawn menu on a red tablecloth

SERIOUS TASTE

Costumed guests cheering with prop limbs in the air

MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT

WHY WE PLAY

Where strangers become regulars.

Most rooms are full of people and short on conversation. We fix that with play. Give adults a character, a secret or a game, and the small talk doesn’t stand a chance.

Expect arbitrary competitions, superfluous prizes and a party favor on the way out. People arrive as a guest list and leave as a set. That is the point.

THREE DISCIPLINES, ONE STUDIO

Creative direction

We imagine past the usual formats: a theme, a story, and a reason for strangers to talk.

Hospitality

We study how a room shapes the people in it, then set every detail on purpose.

Production

Vendors, timelines and the run of show, handled from first sketch to last guest.

Isabelle Di Rita holding a skull at Fatal Affairs

FROM THE FOUNDER

“We take play seriously. It’s the fastest way to drop your guard, get to know someone, and build relationships that outlast the evening.”

I’m Isabelle, and I design salons, dinners, and ridiculously elaborate theme parties. The goal is to have fun for fun’s sake. The outcome is usually that people actually connect, or start a much bigger conversation.

At Spectacle we believe giving someone an activity, a dress code, or a specific question to answer does what small talk never will: it gives them permission. A sealed clue card turns a table of colleagues into suspects. A 1940s dress code hands everyone a character, and the quiet ones become the boldest people in the room. There are arbitrary competitions, superfluous prizes, and a party favor on the way out. It’s summer camp for people with calendars.

Whether you run a company or a community, that’s the point. Trust is built on bonds, and the most meaningful conversations happen between friends. So I start with the people, not the décor, and you get to be a guest at your own party.

Isabelle Di Rita

FOUNDER, SPECTACLE

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