The Modern, super cool Aria Resort & Casino

Written By Robin Wade

  Modern Aria Resort & Casino

Just before the housing bust, several quite amazing hotels were built in Las Vegas.  The Cosmopilitan seems to be getting most of the glory these days, but this super cool, super modern Aria is impressive.  The Aria Resort and Casino is just beautiful.  Great modern aesthetic.  Totally different than what you'd expect to see in Las Vegas.  And, with full disclosure in mind here;  I didn't stay here.  I opted to stay right across the street at Bill's Gambling Hall.  Which was a big savings from the $300 per night starting price tag of the Aria.  But with just completed remodeled rooms, for a starving artist watching his budget (who was traveling without Linda to Impress with just how cool I am - she know's better) was a great value.

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
robinwadefurniture.com
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