March 21, 2023 By SHAYLA MARTIN Veranda
Las Vegas may be known for attractions other than architecture (wink), but Sin City is so much more than nightclubs and casinos. Within just a mile of the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, a.k.a. Las Vegas Boulevard, architecture and design lovers can stroll among soaring creations from the minds of architects Cesar Pelli and Daniel Libeskind, dine in restaurants designed by Ken Fulk and Martin Brudnizki and stay in a lavish suite imagined by French architect Jacques Garcia. Here are 12 of the most beautifully designed sites to explore in Las Vegas.
Carbone and Sadelle’s: Ken Fulk
Whimsical designer Ken Fulk brought the New York cool kid aesthetic to Sin City when he collaborated with Major Food Group’s Jeff Zalaznick, Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi for the 2015 opening of Carbone Las Vegas, with one major difference. While understated elegance is the name of the game in Greenwich Village, the Las Vegas restaurant pulls from the operatic glamour of Vegas in the 1950s. A massive chandelier sourced from a Ferrari dealership hangs in the main dining room, surrounded by intimate red velvet banquettes with dramatic red and gold privacy drapes. It’s a head-turning place to see and be seen.
Fulk’s latest collaboration with MFG is brunch hotspot Sadelle’s Café at the Bellagio. Though it offers American cuisine, the design is decidedly glitzy Parisian bistro, with herringbone wood floors, creamy ocean blue painted walls and coffered ceilings and floor to ceiling windows facing a conservatory.