Author Archives: Allen Nichols

Joffrey’s Bride and Groom

Alexis and Mark are principal dancers with the Joffrey Ballet company. After their ceremony, they had a beautiful reception at Floating World Gallery. They filled the main gallery with “Farm Style” tables with catering by the extraordinary Fox and Obel. The entire exposed brick wall was cleared to they could put up their own phenomenal […]

Glass Brick Room Wedding

Valerie and Andre elected to have a more urban chic themed wedding. All of their guests arrived at the gallery and entered through the garden pathway and into the rear “Glass Brick Room” for their ceremony. The exposed brick and dramatic up lighting made for a stellar and unique effect. After their ceremony, everyone then […]

Annettes Big Surprize !

Annette and Jaymes had a smaller wedding in Lincoln Parks Floating World Gallery last Saturday. The groom, being an artist himself, had all of our artwork taken down and put up his own. The gallery looked stunning. As the ceremony began, everyone was in their place and ready to begin. It was very clear from […]

Emily and Rob’s Chicago Loft Wedding

Last Saturday, Emily and Rob took full advantage of the “blank canvas’ for their ultimate Chicago loft wedding. After the ceremony in the main gallery, everyone went into the raw urban chic “glass brick room” for a cocktail reception, while Andrea and her team from Amazing Edibles set up a flawless buffet for 100 guests.

Chicago Loft Reception

Roberta and Phil took advantage of the feel of the raw urban loft effect by minimal decor’ and very basic floral. The clean lines of the loft and “blank canvas” provided the perfect back-drop for a clean “urban chic” theme in Chicago’s new loft wedding venue .

Welcome to Floating World Gallery’s Blog!

It all begins with a single vision -yours- and we turn that vision into a flawless reality, from start to finish. Imagine your special event in the award winning space of Floating World Gallery, surrounded by masterpieces of classic and contemporary Japanese art. Our intimate urban loft space is the perfect canvas to create and […]

Elegant Chicago Loft Wedding

On March 30th, Audrey and Paul had an early spring wedding and reception at Floating World Gallery, Chicago’s new premiere loft reception site   . They took full advantage of the versatility of the “blank canvas” that the main gallery offers. The 12′ ceilings and exposed brick made a perfect back-drop for this minimalist “urban-chic” […]