Rizzoli Releases Resort Style: Spaces of Celebration by Roger Thomas
Acclaimed Interior Designer Debuts Gold-Embellished Tome Featuring Interiors from Wynn Resorts
| Las Vegas, NV - March 19, 2024 | Executive Vice President Emeritus of Design and Development at Wynn Hotels and Resorts, celebrates the release of his first book, Resort Style: Spaces of Celebration. Published by Rizzoli, Resort Style is a sumptuous presentation of the acclaimed interior designer’s extraordinary hotel casino designs, which are considered among the most spectacular interiors in the hospitality design world.
Exploring the grand lobbies, gaming rooms, restaurants and bars, and hotel guestrooms and suites from his forty-year career at Wynn Resorts that were brought to life through his “evoca-tecture” design philosophy, Thomas organizes the text into eight sections — Drama, Romance, Surprise, Comfort, Luxury, Entertainment, Joy, and Mystery. Chapters within the book discuss these emotive design themes and the alluring configurations of Thomas’ resort spaces. Outrageous accents abound, among them giant lampshades festooned with lacquer tassels and shimmering gold drapery that frames a garden view.
Complete with dazzling visuals from notable photographers including Barbara Kraft, Francis George, Roger Davies, and Russell MacMasters, Resort Style is a must-have for fantasy and luxury design enthusiasts alike. The book layout and design were artfully crafted by Sam Shahid and Matthew Kraus of Shahid / Kraus & Company and Thomas’ writing was completed with journalist and author Jonah Lehrer. Enlisting the help of leading journalists and long-time friends, the forward is by Interior Design Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen and the included essay, “No Place Like Home”, is by Los Angeles Times’ art critic Christopher Knight.
“It has been a delightfully impactful and invigorating experience to revisit the design ideology that I developed while designing the Wynn Resorts properties. I was reminded at every turn of those who inspired, guided, and yes, celebrated, our successes along the way,” says Roger Thomas. “I am grateful for the insightful contributions of Cindy, Christopher, and Jonah, and all of the exceptionally talented individuals who have photographed and chronicled my work over the years, without which this book would not be possible.”
Resort Style: Spaces of Celebration may be purchased at www.rizzolibookstore.com and through Rizzoli’s numerous distribution partners worldwide. Roger Thomas’ debut book signing will occur at the HD Expo + Convention in Las Vegas, NV on May 1, 2024, at 1pm PT in the Social Hub.
About the Roger Thomas Collection
Renowned designer and Executive Vice President Emeritus of Design and Development at Wynn Hotels and Resorts, Roger Thomas, founded The Roger Thomas Collection as a source for home, luxury, and outdoor design. The company has completed award-winning licensed designs with twenty-three esteemed brands, such as Quintus, Speakman, Rocky Mountain Hardware, Samuel & Sons, Labrazel, Global Views, Boyd Lighting, Walters, and Koroseal, and Fabric Innovations. The Roger Thomas Collection features products that are hand-sketched and designed by Thomas for both residential and hospitality spaces. He has been named 5 times to the prestigious AD100, the Interior Design Hall of Fame and the Hospitality Design Platinum Circle. Thomas is on the founding Board of the Las Vegas Art Museum, a current member of the Board of Trustees for The Neon Museum of Las Vegas, where he serves as chair of the Collection Committee and a member of the Italian Board of Directors of Venetian Heritage, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Venice’s cultural legacy. For more information, visit https://therogerthomascollection.com/.
About Rizzoli
Rizzoli New York has been publishing exquisite, illustrated books since 1974 and is a leader in the fashion, interior design, culinary, art, architecture, and photography fields. The Universe imprint—rebranded as Rizzoli Universe—was added in 1990, marking Rizzoli’s entrée into the pop-culture worlds of humor, beauty, sports, performing arts, and gay and alternative lifestyles, as well as a successful calendar program. Rizzoli produces its museum and exhibitions publishing under our imprint Rizzoli Electa, in collaboration with leading Italian book publisher and sister company Mondadori Electa. Our corporate entity Rizzoli International Publications also distributes books from Flammarion, Batsford/Pitkin, Smith Street Books, Gagosian, and Aquavella Galleries. In addition to our publishing house, the company maintains the Rizzoli Bookstore—widely considered one of the foremost independent booksellers in America—which specializes in literature, photography, architecture, interior design, culinary, and the fine and applied arts.