There’s a new girl in town... So runs the advertising campaign for Encore, the new 414-room boutique hotel built within the cushy embrace of Macau’s Wynn Resort. Opened in April, the second hotel in the casino complex was designed to hit highs of exclusivity for the brand, while expressing a new sense of vibrancy and clear ties to the Wynn family lineage; imagine a young fashionista with a large trust fund.

The scheme was therefore mostly developed in-house by the vice president of design at Wynn, Roger P. Thomas, in collaboration with company chairman Steve Wynn and design firm Hirsch, Bedner and Associates.

Integrated into the main Wynn complex, Encore includes a range of shops, two cafes, a small champagne bar and a spa, as well as four gargantuan villas that clock in at about 2,150 square metres. There are 369 deluxe suites at 335 square metre, and 41 of their 610 square metre grand salons suites.
In his pursuit of a suitable wow factor Thomas has not been shy in his combinations of texture, pattern and colour and the sheer variety of design elements can makes for a discombobulating experience. A vast tank of tiny balletic jellyfish behind the reception desk meets bejeweled surfaces, chandeliers, mosaics and silkscreen embroidery, all in a riot of neon colours. Cohesion emerges instead from the hotel’s strong themes – of fortune, femininity and vitality.

In the main lobby a bright Imperial yellow palette meets a four-ton cove chandelier comprised of emerald, pear, brilliant and marquis-shaped jewels. Thomas had the yellow-orange shade tailor dyed to set a playful tone, and it unfurls in public areas to include splashes of fuchsia, parrot green and white. The jewel motif is strongly connected to themes of wealth, fortune and positive energy, and precious stones thrust their way through walls as small installations, rest on side tables and in alcoves as ornamental displays, or even as fittings; in the spa the faucets are made of crystal.

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