There is art spread throughout the property, from a 3,000-pound Viola Frey Amphora IV vase at the base of the escalators (formerly in the Vegas Bellagio) to Art Deco panels on a lobby wall that came from elevator doors at the Mayflower Hotel in Akron, Ohio, to paintings and objects in the 671 hotel rooms and the posh salon. It may be low-brow art but hey, it’s a nautical theme, right? said he looked at this from every single angle possible,” said Gibbons.ĭown from the lobby of the hotel is an alcove holding a 6-foot, 5-inch stainless steel Popeye sculpture by Jeff Koons that Steve Wynn (the since-displaced casino magnate accused of sexual misconduct) purchased for an incredible $28 million. She said there are 40 people in the Horticulture Department led by Director Patrick Chadwick, who has carefully selected flowers and plants that will survive and thrive in the New England weather. “We have had so many people from the area come and thank us for how beautiful we’ve made it,” said Gibbons of the resort. An adjacent lawn (with artificial turf) serves also as a six-acre public park and occasional location of a beer garden, non-contact boxing class and picnicking, an official said. Pretty good for the site of a former chemical plant site that had to be cleaned up to a price tag of $68 million. The grounds, highlighted by the harborwalk, aren’t vast but they’re attractive, well-landscaped and calming. Not only were workers carefully replacing flowers and green plants in the floor display around the carousel (changing over to the fall color palette), but outside a gardener said he was replacing marigolds along the beautiful harborwalk near the resort’s inlet of the Mystic River on this late-summer day even though they would all be replaced with mums (for the fall palette) in a week or so. “We take care of them every day to make sure they’re in the best condition possible.” “All the flowers you see on the property are real,” said Encore official Beth Gibbons during a property tour. It’s also framed by two lovely, curved escalators and surrounded by live flowers and plants, which brings us beyond the bling to a genuine wow - the horticulture. In the lobby sits a 15,000-pound Preston Bailey carousel made of 83,000 “permanent botanicals” (preserved flowers) and 11,000 jewels, with 10 mythical creatures that - don’t bring the kids - you cannot ride. It’s like Mass Vegas, as another writer put it. Living colors, lavish furnishings, giant hotel rooms, custom red chandeliers, a huge salon and fitness area and showy architectural flourishes - this is luxury wholly grafted from Vegas roots.
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