Article: Rock and roll: Kelly Wearstler gets into the groove with the Hard Rock Hotel's high-roller suite.(fireworks)

Glamour is standard fare for Kelly Wearstler. Not only is she known to march around her office on a Monday morning in a pair of gold stilettos, but her design firm, KWID, is known for sprinkling Hollywood Regency stardust on luxury-hotel renovations. The glossy red walls and Chinoiserie at Maison 140 in Beverly Hills are pure Wearstler. Ditto for the graphic wallpaper and citrus-colored furniture at the Viceroy in Palm Springs.

Even so, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino owner Peter Morton seriously upped the ante in commissioning Wearstler to merge eight guest rooms on the 11th floor (originally an uneven mixture of suites and standards) into a single 5,000-square-foot high-roller ...

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