Pipe and Drape Experts, Event Drapes, washington DC / New York City. Drape rental / sales
Pipe & drape experts, Event Drapes & carpets, runners DC / New York City, Rental / Sales
X FACTOR auditions came to Newark New Jersey’s, Prudential Center, and they needed 40 dressing rooms. With neary a 1400′ of doube walled black velour pipe and drape, the Kings made it happen. We creaded rooms with our exclusive “Double Walls” which offer a finished look on both sides, fully opaque and sound absorbtion.
Remember if it’s happening, no doubt Drape Kings is there.
Drape Kings is truly a melting pot and we’re proud of it .
We now have 16 flags hanging in our warehouse and continue to add more. Our little United Nations includes: 
If it’s happening, were there! Most recently for the unveiling of the all-new 2012 VW Beetle that was simutainusly brought to market in New York and Shanghai last week.
Drape Kings supported Jack Morton Productions with hundreds of feet broadway quality pipe and drape ranging from 5′ to 22′ high, ground supported at New York’s Chelsea Piers.
However most excitng was a dual 18 cell Kabuki Drop rig that featured imagery of the artistic travels of beetles, ending with cracking imagery as the Kabuki system released the projection screens on cue with material falling to the floor to reveal the all-new 2012 VW Beetle.
Drape Kings offers Kabuki Systems for both rental and sale, and any amount can be shipped worldwide.
quality rental drape in the business, it’s just common sense.That’s why Drape Kings designs, manufactures, rents, uses, and sells our exclusive lightweight rotomolded plastic, stackable, weather resistant drape hampers.
Each hamper is made of re-cycled plastic with a heavy duty plywood base and 5″ swivel casters.
Hampers come with a separate roto-molded foam filled lids that offer wheel dents for easy stacking. Sized at 16 bushels, they allow for 5 to 7 – 16′h x 16w drapes depending on the fabric type.
Our competitors’ use any number of old canvas mail hampers, heavy road cases, or just old duffle bags to pack and transport their product.
It’s a “no brainer”. Drape Kings has you covered!
Pipe and Drape are an American Presidential staple. Drape is used in any number of applications when it comes to the The President of the United States of America.
The most visible application for pipe and drape is always the royal blue background visible behind the presidential podium. Beyond that pipe and drape is used to create briefing rooms, entrance areas, tunnels, to black out windows, and the list goes on and on.
With the Secret Service’s mandate of protection, drapes allow for the President to be kept out of site until the appropriate time. Most venues besides a traditional theatre are just not designed to move a President thru the facility without being being seen from an entrance to the stage. That’s where the flexibility of pipe and drape offers temporary solutions for creating hallways, blocking windows, and creating entrances.
However the short notice, and whatever it takes to get the job done, Drape Kings is always honored to be entrusted as part of the production team to the White House and the President.
This week it was our pleasure to supply our pipe and drape for three events in three days for President Obama. Drape Kings began the week in our Washington DC office providing drape at the Bell Multicultural High School followed by two events in New York at the Museum of Natural History for an official visit followed by a Fund Raiser at the Studio Museum of Harlem working with Great Performances Catering.
Drape Kings and AFR are pleased to be exhibiting together at Red7′s Best Event Expo 2011.
Together “We’ve Got You Covered” with America’s leading Special Event furniture provider and the leader in Event Drape for both rentals and sales.
The expo is being held at New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion Tuesday March 29th from 10am to 5pm.
Come by and see us. You’ll find the show is a one-stop shop for inspiration, and interaction with New York’s top chefs, designers and event professionals.
And you’ll see the latest in decor ideas for your next event, plus hear keynote speaker Geoffrey Zakarian , Celebrity Chef and Food Network Star.
Drape Kings is pleased to announce that we expanded our offerings once again to include full service carpet rentals, sales and installation for all of your special event needs.
For years we’ve offered the traditional red carpet runners, stanchions and velvet rope. We also supplied your basic stage carpet for in the tradional black and gray to complement our drape packages. Well, we’ve expanded that to include full service event carpet provider services.
To do it right, Drape Kings the leader in pipe and drape has teamed up with Mohawk & Beaulieu, two of Americas premier flooring manufactures. This allows us to provide a full range of colors and styles to meet all of our clients needs. So give us call for your next event.
Off we go to the trade shows of 2011.
Drape Kings exhibits at a number of regional and national shows every year. We pack up our gadgets, fabrics, pipe and drape to bring our wares to the people.
Why you might ask? Well as the old saying goes: you want to see and be seen.
Drape Kings will start the season out with The Special Event Show in Phoenix January 25th-27th. Along with exhibiting in our booth #1119, we’ll also be supplying drape for Dave Merill of AO OEvents for his annual seminar. And joining Dave will be his DesignDawgs, rendering the seminr a must attend.
In April were off to LA for a new show, Event Live Expo April 11th-13th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Here we are exhibiting for Live Events Owners, Promoters & Producers.
Late spring sends us North for our annual trip to PAL, Canada’s largest production technologies event, May 15th-16th 2011 at the Direct Energy Center in downtown Toronto.
And as the season warms up, it’s south to Orlando for InfoComm 2011 June 15th- 17th, the largest Audio Visual event worldwide. The show has over xxx exhibitors and 30k attendees.
The Rental and Staging Roadshow at New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion is a one day event with exhibits, speeches by industry guru’s, and a fantastic lunch. It’s a must for all of NY’s Rental & Staging crowd to network and discuss the state of the industry.
And following the Roadshow also in NYC is BizBash’s Event Style Expo, where we look forward to meeting up with old friends and making new ones. Stay tuned, unlike most shows, you just don’t knw when they are going to announce the dates, but it will probably be in late October or November.
Next to last for the season is LDI, America’s premier Lighting and Staging event, returning to Orlando this yearto the Orange County Convention Center on October 28th – 30th.
And finally, the season ends in November with ISES DC’s annual iDEA. The 2011 dates have yet to be announced but last years event hosted over 50 exhibitors and 400 event professionals.
Along with the traditional exhibit floor, most of these events offer seminars and educational classes so check out the individual show links for more information.
And stay tuned as there may be more shows and events popping up though out the year. We’ll keep you posted.
After the base plate, the pin is the foundation of all pipe and drape hardware assemblies. Base pins range range in size from 3″ to 16″ high based on the height of the upright to be used. However after select
ing the pin size for your pipe and drape set-up you need to decide where to screw on the pin.
Standard bases come with three countersunk holes for the pin location, center, center side and corner.
So the question is why would you want more?
Well, the center pin location is always the best choice for stability as it will evenly balance the with of the pipe and drape over the base footprint, however that’s not the only parameter to be considered.
Let’s explore the first and most common method known as front pinning. By utilizing a front (or edge ) pin location of the base plate the base can be hidden behind the wall of drape. However the one draw back is the plate must be counter balance with additional weight such as a sand bag since the center location has been sacrifice and the upright is off center.
Next you may want to back the pipe and drape wall into a corner. This wil require you to corner pin the drape and move the plate into the corner. On the one hand the drape is in the corner but the base is fully visible. It could discuised by a base plate cover.
Now with the addition of more pin locations the assembly becomes more versatile. One example may be “Double Wall” this allows the user to build two finnished walls of drape sharing the same base. For example most Drape Kings bases asre fully drilled to 9 holes. 
Over the years, Drape Kings has accomplished many feats other companies cannot, but on August 10th, we completed a task that even impressed us.
We provided pipe and drape for Macy’s Herald Square’s gigantic celebration of Nickelodeon character Dora the Explorer’s 10th anniversary. In honor of the show’s longetivy, many celebrities designed their own Dora backpacks for exhibition at the event.
Now, due to the intense timing of the event, we had to remove all 550 feet of our drape in less than an hour, so the store could go back to its regular customer schedule. No problem for the Kings! Our guys were able to get all of the pipe and drape off display, into our hampers, and out of the store within an hour. Talk about fast!
You can see our Bleached White Muslin drape in action in the video below:
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