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Wynn - 2013 - Issue 3 - Winter

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DESIGN SPOTLIGHT With its inventive mix of furnishings in luxe, flattering tones, Wynn's Tower Suites Lobby projects a vibe that is at once upscale and intimate. will allow us to open the Tower Suites Lobby to be much larger and more inclusive.' In the higher end of our resort—the Tower Suites, and the upper echelon of Wynn—we started with a message of exclusivity and enclave. In the years since we opened, the market became younger, it became less formal, and it became more international. We wanted to take advantage of that, Steve in particular, by opening the entire Tower Suites Lobby experience to everyone, rather than keeping it behind closed doors." It became apparent that the frontage on the casino's main path leading to Wing Lei (the formal Chinese restaurant that likewise enjoyed its own recent transformation) afforded an expansive amount of lobby space directly to guests. The resulting redesign allowed the Tower Suites Lobby to evolve into a more integral part of the whole, "to let the energy flow from one experience to the other," as Thomas puts it. He listened to Wynn's vision for the next step, intuitively understanding that there would still be "elegance of experience" in the newly opened space so guests would feel elevated by the environment. With such insight in mind, Thomas sketched a façade inspired by Palladian architecture, stripping everything away from the concept except the lines of the façade, and created the design for the framework that now more openly and clearly signals the location of the lobby when viewed from the casino floor. "It was just the lines of the façade in polished brass frozen in air," he says. Behind this framing, existing themes were expanded and a handsome Tower Suite Bar was built, the latter creating both a new gathering place and an inviting transition to the fine-dining restaurant Tableau. "Tableau wasn't going to get a face-lift at the beginning of this process," notes Thomas. "Steve felt it was fine, and then shortly before we opened Steve decided we needed to redo Tableau. I did Tableau faster than anybody realizes." He also looked around for opportunities. A nearby space that once housed another fine-dining restaurant—and which is currently being turned into The Chairman Salon—was being used as a special-events room, and as a result required a less-specific personality by the time the lobby redesign was underway. A group of opulent lighting fixtures from that former restaurant ultimately proved an ideal fit for the new Tower Suite Bar, Thomas says. As the lobby's more thoughtful flow enabled it to become better integrated into the whole of Wynn's design—creating a grand gathering space that has proven particularly popular for post-convention cocktail hours—so too did the process fit into the overall design evolution that's ongoing throughout Wynn Resorts. Indeed, perhaps it's easier, Thomas says, to envision such projects as the fruits of a never-ending design discussion, complete with a vocabulary he has honed and shared with Steve Wynn during their considerable tenure together. "I think it's just the continuum of a conversation we've been having for more than 30 years," Thomas says. "We just fall into creating the same sort of enthusiasm that we've always had." n It's easier, Thomas says, to envision such projects as the fruits of a never-ending design discussion. 72 WYNN 068-072_Wynn_FEAT_Design_Winter13.indd 72 12/6/13 11:33 AM

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