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Wynn - 2015 - Issue 1 - Spring+Summer

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photography by barbara kraft of the shops turn left and those wonderful round columns, with their crosshatched traver- tine design, are marching around the corner at Chanel. They're backed up by the natural light pouring in on the trees of the atrium, and on the floor are the big flowers that Roger took out of scale in the tiles. The space sweeps, you think something's happening around the corner, and it's an exciting little moment." But those sun-dappled little atriums through- out Wynn and Encore represent something of a design correction themselves, Wynn adds. Partway through the construction of Bellagio, he had the notion of opening up indoor space into a conservatory. On an afternoon flight from Paris, he was looking at a copy of the hotel floor plan. "The high-rise was poured up to 20 floors, but we hadn't started the public area yet," he recalls. "I was looking at the lobby and the L-shaped building where my office would be, and I said to myself, That's too good a location for my office. There are no seasons in the desert, and people come three or four times a year. Suppose I could have cherry blossoms like Washington, DC, in the spring and orange and crimson in the fall." Wynn has no compunction about scrap- ping an idea midway through construction, says Butler. Every day is an opportunity for a course correction. "My role is to take these ideas and make them a reality," he explains. "Sometimes we've already broken ground, and sometimes we're already far along on a building. One time in particular, I said, 'You know, I have to keep my staff excited, and now we're going in a different direc- tion.' And he has said, 'When we've done radical departures, did we ever make the project worse or did we always make it better?' He's right. Every time we've radically departed from the original plan, we've made it better. We don't call them departures now; we call them 'betterments.'" Wynn Palace opens in Cotai in 2016, and Wynn's newest hotel, in Everett, Massachusetts, follows in 2017, but while the designs may be different, you can be sure he approached them with the same core idea. "Forget the television and the antitheft devices and the computers," he says. "Forget the marble and the hand-woven fabrics. That's stuff. What are we doing here? We're creating places with an unusual guest experience that people will want to repeat and love, and we're filling them with people who are as proud of these places as I am." And in creating that unusual guest experience, Wynn may go so far as to tame the elements—or at least recreate them. During a New England blizzard, what will it feel like in the new Everett hotel? Wynn smiles. "It'll feel like spring." n "Nobody ever talks about going to the biggest hotel in the world. Intimacy trumps grandeur." —steve wynn above, from left: Diners at Lakeside have front-row seats to the show on the Lake of Dreams; elegant cabanas at the Tower Suites pool. 34 WyNN STEvE WYNN

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