Mastro’s Ocean Club
3720 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas
Tel: 702-590-9299
Designers: Rockwell Group and KAA Design Group

Leave it to Las Vegas to invent a new take on glitz: this time with organic undertones. Mastro’s Ocean Club, inside Daniel Libeskind’s Las Vegas CityCenter Crystals entertainment complex, boasts a swanky terrace inside an 80-foot-tall, twisting “Tree House” created by David Rockwell, with interiors by KAA Design Group. The Tree House itself weighs 50,000 pounds and is made of a complex wrapping configuration of mahogany and resin beams that looks alternately like a giant hair dryer or like the Na’vi village in Avatar. The interior of the restaurant is entered through a portal of wood-lined ceilings and undulating walls. It includes a dining area of curving white leather booths, chairs made from ochre leather, and banquettes surrounded by curving beams of mahogany and sapele wood. Adding a finishing touch to the dining space are glittering circular chandeliers, made up of jewel-like, irregular glass shapes.