Get an Inside Look at the Oscars Greenroom, Designed by Rolex

Rolex has actually managed the style of its eponymous greenroom at the Oscars because 2016, however for Sunday’s 96th Academy Awardsthe high-wattage Swiss watch brand name has actually leaned in on the idea of calm and relaxation for the speakers and candidates (and, quickly enough, winners) who will delight in the area before and after their minutes in the spotlight.

That concept begins with a spectacular combination of tonal blues and greens, roundly concurred by color specialists to be the vital shades that influence ideas of peacefulness and harmony. This immersive area backstage at the Dolby Theatre likewise puts sustainability front and center by means of making use of properly sourced products that consist of ceramic, glass and natural fibers. Via these colors and components, Rolex kept in mind in a press declaration that the desire is to produce a “vegetal world” meant to go beyond “simple homage to the chromatic identity of the brand name, it is an event of nature.”

Surrounding the range of seating locations developed for discussion is likewise a sophisticated theme stemmed from fans, also a source of motivation for their relaxing element– yet if visitors invited into the space appearance carefully, they’ll likewise observe that those fans and other pleated information look like the fluted bezel on a Rolex watch.

Not unlike Ryan Gosling, Lily Gladstone, Emily Blunt and other dizzying Oscar-night stars in presence this year, a Rolex wrist watch likewise delights in prime positioning at one end of the greenroom; this year the watch on screen is an Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 40 in 18-karat Everose gold (the brand name’s exclusive rose-gold metal) with an ombre slate dial on the brand name’s renowned President bracelet.

Fold in the plant and flower plans, and it’s eventually a nature-driven ambiance that takes spotlight throughout the space. “The idea incorporates necessary components from nature– natural structures and chlorophyll– and intends to produce consistency in between them through a chromatic universe,” journalism declaration notes. “The shapes within this vegetal universe recall information such as the fluting on watch bezels and the brushed metal surface areas of watch dials, transferring their luminescent vibrations.”

In addition to its long time sponsorship of the Academy Awards greenroom, Rolex similarly takes pleasure in an age-old history with movie theater collaborations, from jobs with Martin Scorsese and James Cameron to its continuous assistance of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & the latter extends beyond the Oscars to consist of the watchmaker’s status as a starting fan of the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. Rolex likewise sponsors Scorsese’s Film Foundation, which to date has actually moneyed the repair of more than 1,000 motion pictures, and likewise funds the Rolex Coach and Protégé Arts Initiative in the fields of movie, dance, literature, architecture, music and theater.

When it comes to watch identifying on the Academy Awards red carpet, watch for stars rocking their own wrist watches, as Rolex notoriously does not present or provide its horological systems for occasions. In 2015, observant watch fans kept in mind that both Ryan Seacrest and Mark Consuelos participated in the Oscars with their own Rolex Daytonas on their wrists.