Thomas, who is the head of design at Wynn Resorts, Steve Wynn’s gambling and hotel company, had done the original design for the room only a few years before. The lotus motif was inspired by a Japanese sculpture of the Buddha that Thomas remembered seeing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The agaves framed a fountain, designed by Thomas, at the center of which was a colossal lotus flower, made of eighteen gold-painted panels and illuminated by pink lights. We need it desperately.” The “fluff” consisted of ivy that he was using to hide the roots of a pair of giant agave plants.
“We’ve got an hour until the ropes come down,” he yelled. Three assistants trailed him as he darted around, scrutinizing details and shouting instructions.
On a clear December afternoon, Roger Thomas was completing a four-month renovation of the high-limit slot-machine room at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
