THE DELANO

Project Title: Delano Las Vegas - Las Vegas, Nevada

Location - Las Vegas, Nevada

Interior Design: MGM Resorts International - Las Vegas, Nevada

Purchasing: MGM Resorts International - Las Vegas, Nevada

Client - MGM Resorts International - Las Vegas, Nevada

2014, The Design Narrative - 

Graphic Encounter Fine Art, headquartered in Aspen, Colorado and Los Angeles, California, was engaged by MGM Resorts, Las Vegas, Nevada, to custom print, and custom frame, original high-fashion photographic images, as high-contrast, large format black and white, images of people, floating in water for the 1,122 room all-suite hotel, located on the Las Vegas Strip next to Mandalay Bay Hotel. 

August 6, 2012, MGM Resorts International announced the rebranding of THEhotel into the Delano Las Vegas as part of a partnership with Morgans Hotel Group. The new property was inspired by the Delano South Beach in Miami, while also having a Mojave Desert theme in addition to an abundance of white coloring Delano Las Vegas is also an homage to 32nd U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and included the Franklin lounge as well as iceboxes resembling Roosevelt's hat box. 

On display in the hotel's entrance was a 126,000-pound  Metaquartzite boulder, divided in half. The boulder, approximately 150 million years old, was nine feet tall and five feet deep. The hotel's designers had discovered the boulder while trekking in the Mojave Desert in Jean, Nevada and the process to transport it to the hotel included the use of a 240-ton hydraulic crane.

THEhotel,included original artwork by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Valerie Belin, and Donald Judd. 

Fabrication -

Graphic Encounter Fine Art provided large format Black and White photographic images, which were individually framed in matte white metal frames. Each picture was placed in an individual box to prevent damage during transit and installation.