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DateSun · Oct 11, 2026
Doors5:00 to 9:00 PM
VenueThe Tess · Autograph Collection
Address415 East Paces Ferry Rd NE · Buckhead
The RoomMartinis · Cocktails · Music · Movement
A Monthly Residency for The TessLet'screatetheSunday
Proposal · Autumn 2026
Let'screatetheSunday
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Proposal · Autumn 2026MOOD: Mocha Muse is a proposed monthly Sunday residency created for The Tess, Autograph Collection. Hosted and curated by Dwayne Moore and Spase Ent., the experience brings together soulful music, elevated hospitality, cocktails, style, and an intentional audience from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.
Each edition would give guests a new reason to return while establishing The Tess as the home of one of Atlanta's most distinctive recurring social experiences. More than a one-night event, MOOD is designed to build consistency, community, and cultural relevance around the property.
The Audience
Grown, taste-forward Atlanta. Thirty and up.
MOOD is designed for a mature, style-conscious Atlanta audience 30 and up. Career-established, culturally fluent, socially confident. The core guest dresses with intention, knows the difference between a great cocktail and an easy one, and prefers a curated Sunday to a crowded one.
The room is deliberately cosmopolitan. Creatives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and travelers who come together around music, hospitality, and beautiful company. Grown. Elegant. Socially fluent.
What The Tess Gains
Food & Beverage Revenue
A hospitality-led experience designed around cocktails, small plates, table reservations, and premium service.
Brand Visibility
Original lifestyle content and coordinated promotion that position The Tess within Atlanta's social and cultural conversation.
Turnkey Curation
Dwayne Moore and Spase Ent. lead the concept, talent, audience development, promotion, and on-site energy in collaboration with The Tess team.
The vision is simple: one Sunday each month, one beautifully curated room, and an experience guests associate exclusively with The Tess.
Proposed and hosted by Dwayne Moore + Spase Ent.Time & Place
The room opens at five.
Sunday, October 11, 2026 · 5:00 to 9:00 PM · The Tess, Autograph Collection · 415 East Paces Ferry Rd NE · Buckhead, Atlanta.
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MOOD: Mocha Muse is a curated evening where martinis, cocktails, music, stylish people, and intentional atmosphere come together in one room, for the chic and sophisticated.
It begins as light spills gold
across the city.
Dwayne Moore, host
A slow drift of bodies finds the floor. A glass meets a glass. The skyline turns from honey to ember to indigo, and a patient, soulful beat pulls every shoulder a half-step closer.
Vibe Check
Areyouinthemood?
Six quick questions. See if your energy fits the room before you reserve.
Question 1 / 6
Do you prefer a curated evening over a crowded nightclub?
the room.
AtmosphereTwoDJs.
TwoDJs.
Onearc.
Two sets, back to back. One continuous evening, curated for music lovers who came to move.
Ease in. Settle close.
DJ 1 opens the room. Soulful House and House R&B, low and warm, made for arriving, mingling, and finding your people.
Rise up. Move together.
DJ 2 takes the room higher. R&B, Dance, and Amapiano stitched into one continuous arc, curated for music lovers who came to feel it.
Curated by Dwayne Moore & Spase Ent.
Anoteontheroom.
Atlanta · 2026MOOD: Mocha Muse is a curated evening designed to bring something fresh, stylish, and emotionally memorable to Atlanta. Built around martinis, cocktails, music, movement, fashion, and intentional atmosphere, the night moves through one continuous arc: an opening set for arrival and mingling, then a peak set that takes the room higher. The palette of cream, mocha, chocolate, burgundy, olive, espresso, and soft gold gives the event a visual identity guests can wear, sip, and remember.
We chose The Tess, Autograph Collection because it already carries the architecture, warmth, and elevated hospitality needed to make MOOD feel bigger than a typical party. The audience is the point. This is an evening for the chic and sophisticated who like to mingle and have a great time. Two DJs playing back to back, R&B, House R&B, Soulful House, Dance, and Amapiano, threaded into one mix curated for music lovers. Dwayne Moore and Spase Ent. co-curate the night. The goal is not just to fill a room, but to build a signature Sunday atmosphere that feels curated, beautiful, social, and worth returning to.
better odds.
Betterodds.
Betteratmosphere.
Connection feels easier when the room is curated for movement, music, and presence. A short look at why this room, this afternoon, this crowd.
Social City Index
Atlanta consistently ranks as one of the most social cities in the South.
Music and movement spark conversations that static rooms never can.
The Room Effect
Elevated, well-designed rooms measurably reduce social tension.
Dancing lowers self-consciousness. New rapport happens fast.
The night, in one word.
Network Effect
Most career-defining opportunities arrive through in-person rooms, not inboxes.
Average of Five
You become the average of the five people closest to you. Pick the room with intention.
the food.
Taste,shaped
bytheroom.
The palette runs from cream to cocoa to burgundy in the room. On the plate, it lands as bites you remember. Small plates and cocktails from The Tess kitchen, poured and served through the evening.
Savory
Small plates.
Warm, precise, easy to share. Made to be picked up in one hand while the other holds a cocktail. Cream, mocha, and olive on the plate.
Sweet
Late bites.
Dark ganache, brûléed sugar, honey, burgundy fruit. The MOOD palette in dessert form, served quietly through the night.
The PaletteApaletteyoucanwear,
Apaletteyoucanwear,
sip,andtaste.
Cream. Mocha. Chocolate. Burgundy. Espresso. The colors move from what you wear to what you sip, taste, and remember.
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01 / 08WearLinen, silk, soft dresses, clean shirts.
DoArrive early and let the afternoon sunlight work.
TipCompliment the piece, not the person.
TasteVanilla silk · champagne foam · soft whipped textures.
Dress in the palette. Let the room do the rest.
Come in tones that complement the room and the crowd. Silk, linen, soft tailoring. Cream through burgundy.
For her
Silk, mocha, soft gold.
Stylish dresses, dinner dresses, silk pieces in cream, chocolate, burgundy, mocha, with olive accents. Move easily. The floor is patient.
For him
Tailored, polished, resort.
Tailored suits, cream shirts, mocha suits, espresso jackets, linen sets. Polished resort style with room to dance.
The VenueTheTess.
TheTess.
AutographCollection.
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The Tess, Autograph Collection sets the stage for MOOD: Mocha Muse. A warm, elevated atmosphere in the heart of Buckhead, built for music, movement, cocktails, connection, and the kind of evening the chic and sophisticated show up for.
The room around you. The music through you. The mood above everything.
HotelAutograph Collection
NeighborhoodBuckhead
CapacityBy reservation
Address415 East Paces Ferry Rd NE
Thenight,
hourbyhour.
How the room unfolds across one Sunday evening. The early hour is on purpose. The room is calibrated to the time on the clock.
5:00PMDoors. The opening set.
DJ 1 opens the room. Soulful House and House R&B, low and warm. Arrive early. The first hour is the one you remember.
Cream5:45PMWelcome pour.
Martinis, espresso negroni, the house cocktail. Glass meets glass. The room fills slowly, on purpose.
Mocha6:30PMThe room rises.
The transition set warms the floor. Cocktails circulate. Movement begins. One continuous arc, top to bottom.
Gold7:30PMGolden hour. A palette to taste.
Small plates and sweet bites arrive: cream, mocha, burgundy, soft gold. The night turns sensory. The room settles into indigo.
Burgundy8:15PMThe peak set.
R&B, Dance, and Amapiano. DJ 2 takes it higher. Hands up, floor wide. The room holds.
Espresso9:00PMLast light. Closing.
A final glass. The conversations that matter happen here. The room remembers who stays.
DuskTimes are approximate. The room moves on its own rhythm — slow, on purpose.
QuestionsQuestions before
Questions before
the evening.
If something's still unclear, the concierge is one form away.
MOOD: Mocha Muse is a curated evening for the chic and sophisticated, hosted Sunday, October 11, 2026 at The Tess, Autograph Collection in Buckhead. Two DJs, playing back to back, across one continuous arc: an opening set for arrival and mingling, then a peak set for movement. Curated by Dwayne Moore and Spase Ent.
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It's a feeling.The Tess · Autograph Collection · 415 East Paces Ferry Rd NE · Buckhead, Atlanta