Wynn Magazine - Las Vegas
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28 PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFF GREEN WHIMSICAL MINIATURE VILLAGES, THEIR ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES HINTING AT BRUSSELS, Rome, Paris, London, and Venice, lie in drifts of snow around Wynn Las Vegas. With their merry (and chilly!) silver, gold, and white color scheme, they're like tiny cities that magically blew in overnight, landing with a flurry inside the vibrant floral atrium. Christmas trees—58 in all—shimmer with a quarter million ornaments and nearly as many lights. You could say that this winter wonderland did, in fact, appear overnight, laughs Wynn's Director of Horticulture, Gary Cramer, although it took multiple nights to fully arrive. "We start at midnight and try and get everything done by 7 am," he says. A team of 25 people worked a full week to assemble the five fantasy villages alone, which feature a working Ferris wheel and carousel (replicas of floral sculptures at Wynn Palace in Cotai), a moving train, and windmills, and are surrounded by 1,600 square feet of artificial snow. Little horse-drawn carriages seem to clip-clop through the streets, and in one town, a lively ice The fantasy village of Blefuscu, inspired by Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and circled by an animated train, is just one of five whimsical villages around Wynn Las Vegas. Twinkling lights, bustling miniature villages, forests of holiday trees, and...dragons! by Andrea Bennett WYNN for the HOLIDAYS