Photographer Chris Maluszynski has a new exhibition, Las Vegas Carpets, showcasing that the carpeting at casino is not just in bad taste. Normally, you’d just brush off the interestingly vomit-inducing designs, but there just might be a little more to it. Read on.

Stare at these pics at your own peril.

“ Golden nugget” from Gizmodo by Steven Chan:

I have a friend who teaches at Cornell’s famous School of Hotel Administration; she has a lot of casino designer contacts. According to her, the carpets are deliberately designed to obscure and camouflage gambling chips that have fallen onto the floor. The casinos sweep up a huge number of these every night. So the carpets are just another source of revenue.

So next time you are in Vegas, pay attention to these little details that might be just more than a hideous carpet.

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