As the world’s first Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace commemorates its eighth anniversary, the luxury boutique hotel within the iconic Las Vegas resort embarks on a multimillion-dollar refresh of all 182 guestrooms and public areas. Construction is set to be complete by the end of this year. This is one of several projects in development as Caesars Entertainment Inc. expands its longstanding partnership with Nobu Hospitality—the global lifestyle brand founded by Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper.
Award-winning global architecture and design firm Rockwell Group has re-envisioned the guestrooms and common areas it first designed in 2013.
“As the world’s first Nobu Hotel approaches its eighth anniversary, we wanted to create a modern, residential feel that matched this moment, when travel is a luxury more so than ever,” said Shawn Sullivan, partner, Rockwell Group. “It’s an opportunity to be both transported and rooted to a unique, memorable experience. In every Nobu restaurant and hotel that Rockwell Group has designed, hand-crafted, layered materials are incorporated to reflect Nobu’s roots in rural Japan and Peru.”
The focal piece of the new guestrooms will be a custom sofa in a dozen different patch-worked upholsteries, from painterly-style prints to muted textured graphics. The redesigned rooms will also feature a quartzite coffee table with a gold base and a cracked kintsugi effect, along with additional lighting. New custom carpet will have aubergine hues, as well as abstract and painterly-style florals—inspired by 19th Century Japanese artist Tsubaki Chinzan—overlaid with gold kintsugi veining. Another welcome addition will be a statement desk or dining table, which will be connected to the dresser by a quartz buffer. The refreshed suites will also feature new furniture, rugs and flooring.
“For the updated guestrooms, we drew inspiration from kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold epoxy—creating cohesion from collage. This element will create a streamlined take on the original design concept, and also helps us incorporate the narrative of our original design for Nobu Hotel Caesar’s Palace,” Sullivan said.
Redesigned guest corridors will feature a custom carpet with rippling forms, suggesting a pond of koi fish that cluster at each guest room door, and patterns inspired by suminagashi—the art of Japanese paper marbling. In addition, the new inset lobby carpet will depict monumental slabs of marble and agate surrounded by gold veining, with pops of gray, rust and blue.
Caesars Entertainment and Nobu Hospitality recently revealed future developments of two new Nobu Hotels and restaurants at Harrah’s New Orleans and Caesars Atlantic City, as well as a Nobu restaurant at Paris Las Vegas.
