Casey Cooper Creative Director: Portfolio

CASEY COOPER Creative Director

CASEY COOPER – BIOGRAPHY

In 1995, Casey Cooper founded Botanicals, Inc, an event design firm, with one overriding objective: to produce events of surpassing beauty for a discriminating clientele. In 2008, Casey sold Botanicals to HMR Designs, where she continued to thrive as a senior event designer, and now embraces the role of Business Development Director. Over the past twenty years Casey’s designs have graced Chicago’s finest hotels, event venues, and private homes. Casey has been described in the media as one of six “...designers from across the country… pointing us in the right direction (Elle Décor)”, and the favored designer of “Chicago’s biggest party throwers (Chicago Social).” She partnered with Lifestyle Guru Colin Cowie to execute the on-air designs for ABC-TV and Oxygen‘s “Million Dollar Wedding Giveaway” for the “Oprah Winfrey Show”, as well as “Fabulous Without A Fortune”. Casey also designed and produced the most intimate of Oprah’s gala 50th birthday celebrations. Television appearances have included: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and Oxygen. She has been featured in print in Elle Décor, Glamour, InStyle, Weddings InStyle, Grace Ormonde’s Wedding Style, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Social, and Midwest Living, as well as co-authoring a book titled What’s Your Bridal Style?

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CASEY COOPER – IN THE NEWS

The talents of Casey Cooper have been featured in local as well as national media, here is what people have said...

Six designers from across the country are pointing us in the right direction. Cooper’s aesthetic is gradually catching on, making Botanicals -- the most sought-out in town.

– Elle Decor Toss the tired white roses and grab a new bouquet. Three fresh wedding flower ideas.

Cooper suggests, “Warm up a winter wedding with hot pinks and deep burgundies...

Make a dramatic entrance with one shocking burst of color... Try a cool, wintery bouquet that plays perfectly in the snow.” – Glamour Women business leaders share tips on finding staff and planning ahead. “When you start your business, think through a five-year plan and how big your company might get,” she advises. “If it’s going to grow bigger and you can’t handle everything, lay the groundwork early for others to step in.” – Crain’s Chicago Business

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CASEY COOPER – IN THE NEWS

Our top picks from six cities. CHICAGO: Botanicals, classic creations get exotic by way of umbrella papyrus, snake grass, chinaberries, and lotus and poppy pods.

– InStyle Casey Cooper ’91, Cooper is founder and owner of Botanicals, Inc., an event design firm that is known throughout Chicago and the country as one of the most creative and quality-driven. Cooper says. “In many ways, designing an event is like producing a show. We work with lighting, set design, fabric--it’s all very theatrical and very dramatic. Every meeting with a client is like an audition.” – DePaul Magazine

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E V E N T S CASEY COOPER – OPRAH’S 50TH BIRTHDAY

Oprah Winfrey was given a very special 50th birthday party a few weeks ago by Mr. Stedman Graham, who called on Botanicals to create an equally special mood. Casey

OPRAH’S BIRTHDAY

Cooper had carte blanche to design and produce the affair. What Casey conceived was a bountiful spring garden in full bloom – brimming with texture, bright color and

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energy, and befitting such a dynamic lady as Oprah. The design was meant to feel PRAH WINFREY WAS GIVEN A VERY lavish enough for the occasionspecial but 50th on abirthday scale party to put 75weeks guests a few ago completely at ease.

by Mr.the Stedman Graham, who called on on her show, noting Did we succeed? Oprah featured achievement prominently Botanicals to create an equally special mood. Casey

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happily, “Stedman’s party was grand, but the mood was warm and intimate.”

Cooper had carte blanche to design and produce the af-

fair, working with Linda Salecker and her wonderful team at the Metropolitan Club. What Casey conceived was a bountiful spring garden in full bloom – brimming with

CASEY COOPER – THE LODGE

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CASEY COOPER – THE SHEDD AQUARIUM

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CASEY COOPER – THE MODERN WING AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

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CASEY COOPER – McCORMICK PLACE

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CASEY COOPER – THE FIELD MUSEUM

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CASEY COOPER – SAMPLING OF CLIENTS

Abelson Taylor Charles Schwab Chicago Bears ​Chicago Symphony Orchestra​ The Field Museum Harpo Productions Hilton Hotels and Resorts Loyola University ​Toshiba​ University of Chicago William Blair Wrigley

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