On-site | Lounges

VIP guests enjoy private access to EXPO CHICAGO’s exclusive on-site lounges, the ideal setting for relaxing and recharging while enjoying sweeping views of the fair floor. Located in the northwest corner of Festival Hall.

VIP COLLECTORS LOUNGE
The exclusive VIP Collectors Lounge is designed by Suzanne Lovell Inc, featuring curated vignettes of regional design and furniture by Converso, with custom-designed lighting by Lucy Slivinsky. View specialty crystal pieces by LALIQUE as you enjoy authentic regional Italian cuisine presented by our on-site dining partner Eataly, as well as a full bar featuring Ruinart Champagne.

NORTHERN TRUST ANCHOR LOUNGE
Northern Trust clients and invited guests can enjoy refreshments and light bites, along with networking opportunities, while relaxing in The Northern Trust Anchor Lounge with contemporary furnishings provided by Mitchell Gold | Bob Williams.

VIP card essential for admittance, please review access on the back of your VIP card.

Converso and Suzanne Lovell, Inc. welcome you to the Furniture Club of America, a reinterpretation of the historic professional lounge on the 17th Floor of the North American Furniture Mart—once the largest building in the world upon in 1924 at 666 Lake Shore Drive, which would later become the international headquarters for Playboy. Eclipsed by the Merchandise Mart only four years later, showcasing 75 percent of all furniture production in North America, it remained the world’s second largest building until the completion of the Pentagon. The behemoth scale of both buildings illustrates the central role that Chicago played throughout the twentieth-century in the production and distribution of design. 

A crossroads and a cradle for architectural Modernism, adjacent to the major production strongholds in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and connected to New York, Pennsylvania, and California through seminal showrooms, Chicago would ultimately become identified with ‘the modernistic’ furniture initially deemed ‘too individual’ to appeal to the volume market, instead focusing on the major metropolitan centers and splitting traditional ‘mass’ production with High Point, in North Carolina. 

In Converso/ Lovell’s interpretation, seminal twentieth-century Modern designers inhabit the lounge at EXPO CHICAGO, including: Florence Knoll, Mies van der Rohe, George Nelson, Paul Evans, Vladimir Kagan, Edward Wormley, and Ray and Charles Eames. Visitors are invited to mingle, lounge, and find their place in this historic design conversation.