Bellagio's Garden's Still has its 'WOW'

Los Angeles Times: The Movable Buffet by Richard Abowitz
At 2am Sept 12, a Sunday morning, the Bellagio ropes off the resort's immensely popular garden. For the next week, about 115 people work in shifts , 24/7, to transform the 7300 square feet of planting area from the summer show to the fall display.Tourists gather behind the velvet rope to photograph the changeover and ogle renderings of the finished design.

If slightly less well known than Bellagio's jetting waters out front, Garcia still equates the garden, located near the elaborate Dale Chihuly in the lobby, to the famed fountains. "The WOW factor of the fountains outside has to be matched by something as exciting as the garden inside," Garcia says.

The eye-cathcer of the new show ia a set of three gigantic tre sculptures---each about 25-ft tall and weighting roughly 3300 pouonds, made of tightly wovern willow stretched over metal--provided by Design Solutions, a premier visual display & design firm in Dallas, TX.