NYC: Dining In Style at DIFFA Dining By Design

Each year, the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) invites internationally celebrated designers and local talent to transform a raw space into a showcase of extravagant dining vignettes in support of the HIV/AIDS cause. Dining By Design is DIFFA’s signature event of the year in any region, and now in its 19th year, it’s raised nearly $800,000 toward DIFFA’s grant making efforts. At Pier 92, Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street, a constellation of events spread over five days hosted 2,000 people at two fundraisers and 45,000 people throughout the week of March 17-21. As one of the design industry’s largest fundraising events, and arguably New York City’s largest HIV/AIDs-related fundraiser, Dining By Design is a rare occurrence of many distinctly unique elements of the design industry collaborating closely for a common goal. Each dining vignette is the finished product of months of planning, design and fundraising efforts by local and …