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These days there are high-end hotels in Las Vegas that will sell you new versions of the luxurious sheets, pillows, and even toiletries that they stock their rooms with. But the casinos on their ground floors are a different story; no one wants to furnish their house with the gaudy trappings surrounding a roulette table.
Las Vegas Carpets was an exhibit by photographer Chris Maluszynski, no longer on display but captured in a Wired gallery here. Looking through them you wonder, why are all these patterns so awful? The article provides a possible answer:
Dave Schwartz, Director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas...theorizes that "casino carpet is known as an exercise in deliberate bad taste that somehow encourages people to gamble."
via wired
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Las Vegas carpets offensively designed to keep your eyes off the floor?
You are not reminded to leave nor wanted to even see an exit.
They want you to stay and, ahem, "game".