Todd-Avery Lenahan's Luxury Home Goods Line

The Lenahan-designed Spa at Encore

	Todd-Avery Lenahan
	Lenahan’s tools of the trade
	A sampling of Lenahan’s architecture book

By the time Todd-Avery Lenahan moved ABA Las Vegas Design Studio from its former Central Valley location at Hughes Center to an office that is a stone’s throw away from Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area in 2008, Summerlin resident Lenahan had proven himself to be a hospitality designer extraordinaire, and had acquired a clientele that he says is now more than 95 percent outside of Las Vegas.

The work he has done locally, however, are some of Las Vegas’s biggest hits. His designs for Wynn Las Vegas range from The Country Club to Red 8, with its blue and white porcelain ceiling; Encore’s Sky Villas, world-famous spa, and guest rooms are all Lenahan visions. If you’ve dined at Wolfgang Puck’s Cut in The Palazzo, you’ve been “design educated” by him.

Now Lenahan is making two bold moves onthe strategic side: He’s retiring “ABA Las Vegas” and completes the rebranding of his company as TAL Studio this month, and at press time was scheduled to introduce his new TAL Style bed and bath linen lines during November’s International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show in New York City.

TAL Style (tagline: “Luxury that endures”) is the next logical step for Lenahan. His work has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest and Interior Design, and Hospitality Design magazine named him one of four honorees who “demonstrated the highest degree of excellence throughout their careers” at last year’s Platinum Circle awards at the Hospitality Design Summit in Pebble Beach, California. The interiors of Philadelphia’s Hotel Monaco, Chicago’s Mandarin Oriental, the Four Seasons in the Bahamas, and the Ritz Carlton in Saudi Arabia are just a few recent highlights from his five-star portfolio.

A Worldly Beginning
Lenahan has been a globe-trotter from the get-go. Raised in architecturally rich Washington, DC—his father worked at the Pentagon and his mother was a designer—Lenahan’s military family bounced between Europe and the US (California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York). From an early age, he knew he was destined to be a design professional. “When I was very young, I didn’t know it was called ‘architecture,’ but I knew I wanted to make buildings,” says the Eldorado High School and University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and Urban planning graduate. “It wasn’t too long after that that I was aware of exactly what an architect did. I got my Boy Scout merit badge in architecture. I did all of that. This is my path.”

That path led from designing with Disney’s Imagineers early in his career to his current Charleston Avenue office—a masterpiece of design that exemplifies Lenahan’s signature blend of classicism and contemporary. “When we started our firm 12 years ago, we were largely serving a client base from the Valley,” says Lenahan, who applies his ideas to private residences as well. “We have evolved now.”