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VEGAS VEGAS ® 2016, ISSUE 6 ISSUE 2016, BEJEWELED THE SEASON’S BEST BLING! DIVINE DINING A-list bars, restaurants, WINTER & lounges ALL-STAR CONCERTS TO KICK-START 2017 PLUS MASAHARU MORIMOTO OPENS AT MGM GRAND BIGGER, BETTER, HIGHER: REAL ESTATE EXPERTS PREDICT THE YEAR AHEAD WINTER’S COZIEST COCKTAILS #INSTA-VEGAS #INSTA-Vegas WE LOVE TO WATCH...THE CITY’S MOST SOCIAL STARS vegasmagazine.com GREENGALE PUBLISHING, LLC December 2016 CONTENTS WINTER 2016 105 This grand double floating staircase takes you up to the terrace at RH Las Vegas. Feels like a mansion, functions as a design studio. SPACE LIVING LAS 110 Real estate experts VEGAS say the market has one way to go in 105 // THE BIRTH OF THE 2017: Up. Literally. MODERN 116 // HOW SUITE IT IS You’ll want to move in to the new RH Vegas’s sexist septuagenarian Las Vegas, The Gallery at Tivoli (hotel, that is) shows how it’s done. Village—and that nicely aligns with CEO Gary Friedman’s vision. 108 // ASIA CALLING The city’s first new-build hotel casino in six years, Lucky Dragon moves Chinatown to the Strip’s North End. 109 // LEGO LOCO! Found: the perfect man. Leaning in, listening to your secrets, not talking back… and comes in delightful primary colors. ON THE COVER: ON THE COVER: 110 // GOING UP! Holly Madison (@hollymadison) Where do the city’s top real estate Photography by Tatiana brokers see the market going next Gerusova (@tatianagigi) year? In a word, higher. 112 // SPACE: THE GUIDE The best of Las Vegas home décor, hotels, and real estate. (SKY) TRINDADE JASON HARDWARE); (RESTORATION HARDWARE RESTORATION OF COURTESY PHOTOGRAPHY 24 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM SPACE REAL ESTATE & DESIGN THE BIRTH RH CEO Gary Friedman says this rooftop won’t OF THE become a party space, but it’s MODERN already hosted one of the year’s best, and Las Vegans YOU’LL WANT TO MOVE IN might not take no TO THE NEW RH LAS VEGAS, for an answer. THE GALLERY AT TIVOLI VILLAGE—AND THAT NICELY ALIGNS WITH CEO GARY FRIEDMAN’S VISION. BY ANDREA BENNETT Known for design that offers a unique take on traditional forms, Restoration Hardware has made a latter-day leap into contemporary furnishings with the launch of RH Modern. But while other home furnishings and design busi- nesses move toward selling in the virtual realm, RH CEO Gary Friedman is assertively going the opposite direction. Namely, in openings like the new RH Gallery (340 S. Rampart Blvd., 775-464- 0770; rh.com), which, at 60,000 square feet over four floors of a classical contemporary manse, anchors the expansion of Tivoli Village. It is immediately recognizable, with its charcoal-gray Venetian plaster exterior, an entrance of 30-foot-high glass-and-steel arches, and courtyards filled with lush fig ivy and towering date palms. A rooftop park and conservatory is studded with mature heritage olive trees—as if someone lives here. And that is quite the point, as Friedman told us in a recent conversa- tion about RH’s future. I hesitate to call RH Gallery a store, since I’d like to just move in. Most retailers build a storefront or slap up a big box building. We’re building spaces with fresh air and natural light—really more home than store. We don’t do this because it’s a novelty idea. It allows people to explore and experience in a PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF RESTORATION HARDWARE RESTORATION OF COURTESY PHOTOGRAPHY VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 105 SPACE DEBUT realistic and abstracted brand is really important. The manner. Our consultants in the more three-dimensional the Design Atelier are there to experience, the deeper connec- understand how people can tion a person can have. If you’re amplify their own space and selling commodities, this isn’t so even help them conceive a important. There’s no need for a space that they might not be person to interact with a box of able to imagine on their own. Tide laundry detergent before In Vegas, the rooftop area they buy it! seems particularly inspired How do you see the RH because of our weather. experience evolving? We’re excited to be in Las These new design galleries are Vegas, and we’ve allocated more in their very early states. There outdoor space here than to any will be a whole floor dedicated other Gallery because we know to RH Modern—our new that people love their outdoor business in the last year. The spaces. We’re trying to express vast majority of team members who we are in the most authentic are interior designers or “THE PHYSICALITY OF OUR BRAND and dynamic way we can. consultants with strong design I understand the idea of backgrounds. Our design ethos IS REALLY IMPORTANT. THERE’S NO experiencing a space, is based on our belief that the but 60,000 square feet is most pleasing design is a NEED FOR A PERSON TO INTERACT really large! reflection of human design, Where other retailers are and we are helping people. WITH A BOX OF TIDE LAUNDRY shrinking, the physicality of our realize their own vision. DETERGENT BEFORE THEY BUY IT!” —GARY FRIEDMAN from top: Customers are encouraged to relax and experience this outdoor furniture in its breezy from top: Pull up a stool and make some design decisions environs; not just living room with RH’s team of consultants; this fire pit faces Red Rock. furniture—lie down for a bit of retail therapy! PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF RESTORATION HARDWARE RESTORATION OF COURTESY PHOTOGRAPHY 106 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM Morrie and Ellen Schaner Emily and Ross Goodman Katie Epstein and Jonathan Fine RH LAS VEGAS Kristen Graves Winchell GRAND OPENING and Ron Winchell Influencers from the worlds of entertainment, design, fashion, art, philanthropy, and business gathered to celebrate the unveiling of RH Las Vegas at Tivoli Village. The event featured a DJ performance by Chris Malinchak on the rooftop and a guest appearance by Shannon and actress and supermodel Amber Valletta. Bill McBeath Guests enjoyed gourmet bites by Nobu and sipped Bellinis by Cipriani NYC and Todd Wilbur and wines by Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley. The Pamela Ellis event benefitted local charity After-School All-Stars Las Vegas. Commanding four levels and 60,000 square feet, the new retail experience features artistic installations of home furnishings in a gallery setting—including an entire floor dedicated to RH Amber Valletta Modern with an integrated RH Michael and Jenna Morton Contemporary Art Gallery. Jeff Fine, Bella Hunter, Chris and Gary Friedman Malinchak Michael McGraw and Justin and Sean McClenahan Dana Manacher VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 43 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CLOCKWISE: Elaine Wynn, Sophia Song, and I caught up before Jenna Morton’s birthday party hosted by Michael Morton at their beautiful home in The Ridges (passed White Castle sliders...genius!); I served on the hosting committee for the opening of RH Las Vegas (the dress is from Patina Décor), and met up there with RH CEO Gary Friedman; one of the women I admire most in our community, Rose McKinney-James, was the keynote speaker at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open’s sixth annual Kick Off Your Heels Luncheon. (read more about it on page Paris, Venice, and even New 50). But to my surprise, York City are inscribed within Whitner observed that Las Las Vegas. Vegas seems a particularly apt This is why I live in and love location in which to stage an Las Vegas. Sure, we push the exhibition about the rise of the limits of architecture, fashion, modern city. Vegas is “a place and often, good taste. But in Recently I attended a lecture at that has not only been upheld many ways, that makes us a #THEVEGASEDIT Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art as the quintessential postmod- testing ground for urban In the last month, I’ve been entitled “Town and Country: ern city since the 1970s, but has change. We’re the runway to massaged with candlewax; Painting and Modernity from eaten my weight in vegan continued to serve as the lens realway of urban planning. In meat; gone on what I thought Realism to Expressionism,” through which to theorize the the pages of our #Insta-Vegas was a comprehensive oyster given by Claire C. Whitner, changing international urban cover story (page 84), we offer happy hour tour (there’s more assistant director of curatorial work to be done!), detoxed in landscapes in the 21st century,” you that lens Whitner men- a hyperbaric chamber, and affairs and senior curator of she pointed out. Always tioned, quite literally, throug h did upside down yoga as part collections for the Davis evolving, reinterpreting, and which to see our changing city, of #thevegasedit, our new page on vegasmagazine.com. Museum at Wellesley College. reinventing, Vegas offers through our characters, our Want me to try something and The show, which examines new interpretations “of how landscape, our fashion, our give you the inside scoop? how artists depicted 19th spectacle and visual primacy unique aesthetic. Email me at thevegasedit@ greengale.com. Your ideas century Europe’s rural and continue to be components of (for which you’ll get credit!) urban areas during great social, the urban experience.” It’s Happy Holidays, could inspire what we cover in the magazine and on our site. economic, and artistic change, almost too perfect, she rightly is fascinating in its own right pointed out, that our micro- ANDREA BENNETT Follow me on Instagram at @andreabennettink and on vegasmagazine.com/thevegasedit. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN OPEN (MCKINNEY-JAMES); BY JOE DURKIN OF MOTION STILLSMULTIMEDIA SOCIAL GAL EVENTS (WYNN); STEFFY BRYAN AND AL POWERS (FRIEDMAN) 30 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM SPACE: THE GUIDE THE BEST OF LAS VEGAS HOME DÉCOR, HOTELS, AND REAL ESTATE HOME PATINA DÉCOR HOTELS to a number of high-style with multiple nightlife dining and nightlife venues, theaters, and DÉCOR One of the highlights venues, as well as action-packed pools.