Underground Social: The Pop-Up Club

Bored with the nightlife in your city? Tired of the same old clubs week after week? A growing trend across the nation for the past couple of years, the Pop Up Night Club has gone worldwide even showing up in far-flung places like Nairobi, Kenya. These fly-by-nightclubs provide an experience above and beyond what you can find out on any main strip in any given major city.  Pop-up nightclubs are heard of, but rarely seen or experienced.

Pop up clubs show up in unexpected places and spaces - from an empty warehouse or art gallery to loft spaces or empty grocery stores. The important thing is that it is a raw space that event promoters can transform. The experience is exclusive and offers an amazing entertainment and an unmatched nightlife experience.

To get an invite, it’s not what you know but whom you know. Someone that is already a member must refer a new invitee.  It is standard operating procedure and it is intended to keep the club and social experience underground and exclusive.

We’ve done a couple of pop up nightclubs, and we wanted to know more about them. Luckily, we knew just the people to speak with. Atlanta Guestlist gave us a peek inside one of their events. Check This Out!  You’ll even see some of our furnishings including our Sophistication Collection, Civic Tables and Essentials Day Bed, which we provided to help create the amazing Vegas-like club.

Here’s how the evening unfolded for 400 guests at Atlanta Guestlist’s “Witness 2013.”  Before taking guests to an undisclosed location on a crisp October night, guests enjoyed a cocktail reception at the W Atlanta - Buckhead and then boarded limo buses that took them to an undisclosed location – The Westside Cultural Arts Center in Midtown. To create the nightclub, GuestList brought in audio and video, décor and staff to transform the arts studio into a posh nightclub for guests. With DJ Danny Diggz spinning, drinks flowing, and the bodies moving, the unforgettable night of socializing ended with a pizza delivery surprise from Bomb Squad Pizza.

The events are exciting and sexy and people love being part of the social underground.  To be sure, the events are high end and professionally executed.  “We’re focused on making sure when someone walks through our doors they have the best entertainment experience as possible,” said, Andre Smith, President and Co-Founder, Guestlist Atlanta.

At AFR, we are a little in love with the whole idea of the pop up nightclub. Just like the clubs themselves they present us with a non-traditional opportunity to be creative with our furnishings. We can’t wait to for our next pop-up club experience. We hope that an unexpected invitation drops into our inbox very soon.

Are you looking for furnishings for a pop up club, retail or commercial space?  We can help. Please contact your AFR Representative at 888.AFR.RENT or visit our website to see our full collection of furnishings at www.afreventfurnishings.com

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