Zero Bond Las Vegas Opens, Bringing a Curated Collection of Fine Art Back to the Strip
The members-only club debuts at Wynn Las Vegas with pieces by Andrew Wyeth, Joan Miró, Jeppe Hein, and more
When New York City private members club Zero Bond officially opens the doors of its second location on March 10 at Wynn Las Vegas, it will feature more than $40 million in art by revered talents like Marc Chagall, Hans Hofmann, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Miró, and Robert Indiana. “It’s a rich, meaningful collection in an intimate space,” says Todd-Avery Lenahan, president of Wynn Design and Development.
The 15,000-square-foot Las Vegas social club spans two floors, including the convivial Salon; the Fairway Grill, a members-only dining room serving lunch and dinner; Baby Disco, a jewel-box lounge with disco balls and lava lamps; private wine lockers stocked to preference from Wynn’s cellar; and a humidor filled with rare cigars to be enjoyed in the indoor or outdoor cigar lounge.
There is also a sculpture garden overlooking Wynn Golf Club, a boardroom and penthouse for watching sporting events, and two private gaming salons—including one where guests can play blackjack beneath two paintings by Alexander Calder.
“We’ve created a ‘string of pearls’ of dining and bar experiences,” Lenahan says. All are anchored by a private Zero Bond valet, allowing members to arrive discreetly without walking through the Wynn resort. There are also secret entrances to Sartiano’s, Baby Disco, and the adjacent Wynn Fairway Villas. “You can truly have that cosseted private members experience,” he says.
Bond Hospitality Group’s private members club Zero Bond New York opened in 2020 within a 20,000-square-foot Victorian-Gothic mansion. Created by founders Scott Sartiano and Will Makris, it quickly became an epicenter of the city’s social universe. Assembled from friends and gallerists around town without a formal curatorial process, the art at Zero Bond New York drew so much attention that collectors began buying art directly off the walls.
“When we announced Zero Bond Las Vegas, one of the things that was important to Scott was that we bring that same sensibility about art to this club,” Lenahan says. “I said right away, if we’re going to do it, it’s going to be intentional. We wanted to make the art program part of the dynamic quality of this space—curate exhibitions, not just pieces coming in and out—with a really clear point of view.”
The interiors of Zero Bond Las Vegas draw inspiration from 20th-century Milanese modernism, designed by Wynn Design & Development in collaboration with Tihany Design. To complement that aesthetic—and create a setting where members from a wide variety of industries gather for cultural events, culinary programs, fireside chats, musical performances, and more—the art had to strike a careful balance. To source the works, Lenahan called upon Heather James Senior Curator and Director of Museum Relations, Chip Tom, who was already in the process of acquiring art for the new Wynn Al Marjan Island resort in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
Upon entering Zero Bond Las Vegas, members first encounter John Baldessari’s Concrete Couples, featuring the handprints of famous pairs—real, fictional, and infamous—including Bonnie and Clyde, Antony and Cleopatra, and Mickey and Minnie. Doors opens to the Salon, designed in the shape of a cathedral with a central bar at its altar—where a Pierre-Auguste Renoir artwork is set opposite a Marie-Félix Hippolyte-Lucas canvas.
Elsewhere, Amedeo Modigliani’s Cariatide converses with Winslow Homer’s In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field), while Thomas Hart Benton’s Planting (Spring Plowing) creates a dialogue with Andrew Wyeth’s Quart and a Half. “You have the whole progression from ancient art all the way through,” says Tom. “As you walk through the space, you can follow the thread of art history.”
Outside, sculptures by Robert Indiana, Joan Miró, Jeppe Hein, and more overlook Wynn Golf Club and the Sphere. “That view is something you just do not get in Las Vegas,” says Sartiano. “To step outside and see art set against that open green space, with the quiet and the scale of it, is incredible. It creates this unexpected moment of calm and culture right in the middle of the Strip.”
Through a QR-code system, members can review each artwork’s history and provenance, and potentially make a purchase.“The idea was to present pieces that appeal on both an emotional and intellectual level, for the seasoned collector as well as someone new to collecting,” says Lenahan. “We wanted the process to feel very frictionless.”
“It’s a new way to see art—not in a museum, not in a gallery or art fair, but more like visiting a collector’s home,” adds Tom. “And being able to have great food and wine while sitting under a Chagall.”