1923 Prohibition Bar sits inside The Venetian with a view that makes its own argument: the large windows look out onto the hotel's Grand Canal interior — the colonnades, the painted sky ceiling, the gondolas moving slowly below. The bar's own interior is in deliberate contrast: dark red curtains, mahogany tones, candles on high tables, the proportions of a private room rather than a casino bar. The name is a date, and the reference is to the era of hidden bars and considered drinking rather than spectacle. In a building designed as pure spectacle, the restraint is genuinely surprising.
The Strip, Las Vegas, United States