They’re large, they’re fiberglass, and they’re causing people to stop in their tracks. No, the city has not reprised 1999’s “Cows on Parade” public art exhibit. This year, the city is giving us “Suite Home Chicago,” a collection of artistic renderings of furniture. More than s dozen new suites of 1-4 pieces of furniture have joined the first group of 180 suites that went on display in June. Even more pieces may join the exhibit before it ends on Oct. 13 but below you’ll find an up-to-date list of all the furniture on display so far.
KEY: Number. Name of artwork
(Artist)
Sponsor
MAGNIFICENT MILE
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Sutton Place Hotel
3. Egyptian Chair
(Niedermaier Design Team)
Marilyn Miglin, L.P.
4. Residential Transitions
(Jackie Moses)
Rubloff Residential Properties
5. MozPod
(Jordan Mozer)
Jordan Mozer & Associates
6. Home on the Range
(Scott Piper, Exo Company and Skyline Design)
LaSalle National Bank
6A. Untitled
(Claire Ashley)
Morson Collection
7. Cat Nap
(Tiffany Stronsky)
Drake Hotel
8. Pick Up Your Clothes
(Nancy Gardner and Burt Isenstein)
Mark Shale
9. Chicago’s Cows Come Home Suite Home
(Carol Stitzer)
Interfaith House
10. Summer
(Mackenzie Thorpe)
Atlas Galleries
11. Untitled
Westin Michigan Avenue
12. Seat of Inspiration
(Ellen Gradman)
The Whitehall Hotel
13. Bach-a-lounger
(Jane Perkins)
Women’s Board of the Ravinia Festival
14. Hot Rooms, Cold Sofa
(Colin Lambeides)
Hot Rooms Division of Hotel Reservation Management Co.
15. Chicago’s Suite Sisters
(Maryanne Warton and Sisters Too)
United Airlines
16. MozPod
(Jordan Mozer)
Jordan Mozer & Associates
17. Prime Time
(Jill Ricci)
The Saloon Steakhouse
18. Hot Dog With Everything
(Paul Meyer)
Chicago Magazine
20. Our Every Tree/The Illinois Shore/ Tele-Vision
(Renee McGinnis)
Chicago Office of Tourism
21. Hiz and Miz Honor
(Flair Communications Agency, Maria Tubay and Stan Sczepanski; Rick Tuttle and Kaleidoscope)
Flair Communications Agency
22. Untitled
Loyola University Chicago
23. Side Chair
(Victor Skrebneski)
Hyatt Hotels of Chicago
24. The Great White Long-legged Winged Homing Chair. Appears Only Once Every 5000 Years.
(Victor Skrebneski)
Judy Niedermaier
25. Something from Nothing
(Student artists of Marwen)
Lakewest, Inc.
26. Wishes Do Come True
(Shane McCall)
American Girl Place
27. Suite Chicago Dogs
(Anne Leuck Feldhaus)
HomeLife Furniture
28. Soda Fountain “Suite”
(JoAnne Conroy)
Walgreens
29. Eli’s Chairy Cheesecake
(Becky Flory and Betty Lark Ross)
Eli’s Cheesecake Company
30. Untitled
(Patrick Micelli)
Museum of Contemporary Art
31. Talking Heads
(Patti Shapiro)
Cole Taylor Bank
32. Life as Dance
(Zhou Brothers)
The Peninsula Chicago
NORTH MICHIGAN AVE.
(Between Superior and Ohio)
33. Table with Chair
(Victor Skrebneski)
Saks Fifth Avenue
34. Our Hometown
(Maryanne Warton and Sisters Too)
Corrugated Supplies Corp.
35. Moving Day
(John C. Steinbrunner)
Room & Board
36. Untitled
(Walter Ornelas)
Terra Museum of American Art
37. Seat of Knowledge
(Mary Burke)
Shimer College
38. Baden-Baden Cowch
(Dennis Callahan)
Hanig’s Footwear
39. Untitled
(York Community High School)
James McHugh Construction
40. Sling Chair Ottoman and Sling Bench
(James Geier)
555 Design Fabrication Management
41. The Casting Couch
(Michael Kutza)
Chicago International Film Festival
42. MON DIVAN
(Victor Skrebneski)
Salvatore Ferragamo
43. Televisionary Art
(Jeffrey Conroy)
FCB Chicago/True North
44. A Classic Combination
(Clayton Dibble and Laura Cunningham)
Crate & Barrel
45. Sitting Pretty
(Jeffrey Conroy)
The Meeting Group, Inc.
46. soFA, so good
(Jeffrey Conroy)
Higgins Development Partners
47. Town, Country, City
(Michael Dopp)
Andrea Atlass & Ken Kuehnle
48. Charity in the Neighborhood of Our Success
(Jenny Steinman/Steinman Studios)
Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and Golub & Co.
49. Chicago Free Press: Portraits of the Community
(Jason Smith)
Chicago House and Social Service Agency
50. El sillon de la sabiduria
(Alberto Senior)
Lapiz
51. Deluxe Suite/Fabulous View
(S. Thom Cicchelli)
Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
52. Creativision
(Mr. Imagination)
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
STREETERVILLE
(To Navy Pier)
53. Stadium Seating
(John Llewellyn)
Museum of Science and Industry and FireWorks for Kids Foundation
53A. Chair-ub of the City
Constance Lee Trojnar-Gauba
Avenue Business Center
54. City Sunflower Garden
(Kate Tully)
City Scents Flowers & Gifts
55. Untitled
Chicago Marriott Downtown
56. Zone Throne
(Dennis Callahan)
ESPN Zone
57. Easy Living
(Ruben Toledo)
Nordstrom
58. Fashion T.V.
(Ruben Toledo)
Nordstrom
59. Anita’s Flower Bed
(Michael Cheney)
Atlas Galleries
60. Creature Comforts
(Marko Markewcyz)
Opt1mus
61. Lazy Girl
(Ruben Toledo)
Nordstrom
62. Making an Impression
(Sheri Meketa/ Hilligoss Galleries)
The John Buck Co., The Shops at North Bridge
63. Nightlight Love Seat
(Randy Pijoan/Hilligoss Galleries)
The John Buck Co. The Shops at North Bridge
64. Lady Bug Invasion
(Arlena Tucker-Hampton)
H.D. Hudson Manufacturing Company
65. Scenic Chicago
(Donna Antkowiak)
Hotel Inter-Continental
66. Chicago’s Suite Seasonal Bodies
(Lois Hrejsa)
Day’s Inn Lincoln Park
67. Bungalow Belt
(Robert Gadomski)
Toms-Price Home Furnishings, Wheaton and Lincolnshire
68. Chicago’s Talking Heads
(Studio 676)
Manning Selvage & Lee
69. Everyday People
(Apache Wakefield)
Andrea Atlass & Ken Kuehnle
70. Spring is in the Air
(Vesna Lazar)
Vesna Lazar
71. Sanctuary
(Michelle Stone)
Kenyon Oppenheimer, Inc.
72. A Room With A View
(Kelly Rauch, Rauch Studio)
American Liver Foundation, Illinois Chapter
73. Don’t Just Sit There — Do Something
(Unknown)
Illinois Bureau of Tourism
74. Cowgirl
(Jared Joslin)
Sotheby’s
75. The Fabric of a Whole New Sky
(Glenn Harris)
Singapore Airlines
75A. Famous Faces, Chicago Places
(Mitch O’Connell)
William Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation
76. Sunday Morning
(Dennis Callahan and MARC USA/Chicago)
Chicago Tribune
77. Lava 36
(George Mac and Steven Jackson)
Haggerty Enterprises, Inc.
78. Front Row Suite
(Nicole Hollander)
Network Chicago, WTTW-Ch.11, WFMT-FM 98.7, CityTalk
79. Fourniture
(Kozan Studios)
ArtDogZ.com
80. Love Suite
(Georgan Damore)
IKEA
81. Legroom
(Exhibit Group Giltspur)
American Airlines
82. To Go
(JoAnne Conroy)
Clark Retail Enterprises, White Hen Pantry
83. Sweet Home Chicago
(Youlia Tkatchouk)
WMAQ-CH. 5
84. Deconstructive Dreams: Sebastian, Maximus, Simeon, Longinus
(Jorge Cruz)
Embassy Suites Hotel-Chicago
85. TV Funtime
(Lois Keller)
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
86. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
(Suzanne Rampage)
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
CENTRAL MICHIGAN AVE.
(From Wacker to Balbo)
87. Furniture3
(The Environments Group)
Chicago House and Social Service Agency
88. Chicago’s Future Furniture Suite
(Allan Hicks)
Hyatt Regency Chicago
89. Glass Bottom Sofa
(Maryanne Warton, Sisters Too)
Chicago’s First Lady
90. R E S T
(Gary Lee Partners)
Chicago House and Social Service Agency
91. Windy City Sofa
(Joyce Polance)
Chicago Sun-Times
92. Suite Home Chicago, a set
(Plamen Yordanov)
Microsoft Corporation
93. Homage to Sergei Eisenstein
(John Conklin)
Chicago Opera Theatre
93A. Lakefront
(Rachid Moussouni)
Chicago Association of Realtors
94. First Chair
(BettyAnn Mocek)
Fairmont Chicago
94A. Suite Leilani
(Steve Dahl)
Steve Dahl & Co.
95. Let ‘Em Eat Suites
(Gallery 37 Apprentice Artists)
Arts Matter Foundation
96. For the Douglas Transit Arts Program
(Yollo Calli Youth Museum)
Chicago Transit Authority
97. Who’s Watching Who/Time
(David Philpot)
David Philpot
98. Untitled
Arts Council of Beaufort County, South Carolina
99. Vegetable: Cause and Effect
(Adam Brooks)
Gallery 312
99A. Salute to the Toot
(David Moose)
Jim and Barbara Hanig
100. Kite Kouch
(Artists of Windy City Arts)
Windy City Arts
101. Live It Up in Singapore!
(JoAnne Conroy and Aaron Goland)
Singapore Tourism Board
101A. Fusion
(Interior Architecture Studio)
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
102. CHILD-SEAT
(gARTh)
The Rizai Family
103. The Fireside Chat
(Zsofia Otvos)
Roosevelt University
104. Mile Long Sofa
(Niedermaier Design Team)
Niedermaier, Inc.
105. Leafy Lounger
(Jennifer Graham Caswell)
Jennifer Graham Caswell
105A. Pathways Couch
(The Children of Pathways to Development)
Youth Campus back to top
106. People, Places & Neighborhood Spaces
(Dennis Callahan)
Chicago Department of Planning and Development
107. Sweet Suite
(Jo Hormuth and Micki LeMieux)
Sara Lee Foundation
108. My Kind of Suite . . . Chicago Is
(Gallery 37 Apprentice Artists)
Arts Matter Foundation
LOOP/FINANCIAL DIST.
19. Full Moon
(Thomas O’Brien)
Marshall Field’s
121. Seat of Imagination, Chicago
(2-D Design Art-100 and Konrad F. Hack)
Robert Morris College
121A. The Superlative Suite
(Sergio Roca)
Chicago Office of Tourism
122. Black & White in Color
(Jonathan Franklin and student artists)
Art Resources in Teaching
122A. Finding Home
(Cowpainters LLC)
Cowpainters LLC and Cole Taylor Bank
123. River Suite
(Phil Schuster)
311 S. Wacker Building
124. Kaleido-couch
(Gallery 37 Apprentice Artists)
Arts Matter Foundation
124A. Business Class
(Becky Flory and Betty Lark Ross)
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
125. Metropolis 233
(BettyAnn Mocek)
Sears Tower Skydeck/Trizec Hahn
126. Favorite Memories
(Artists of Renaissance Court)
Heller Financial
127. A Seat on the Exchange
(Dawn Madison)
Segall Bryant & Hamill Investment Counsel
128. Let’s sit down and talk
(Niedermaier Design Team)
American Express Tax and Business Services
129. A-R-I-A going to take a seat?
(Scott Marr)
Lyric Opera of Chicago
130. Cash Couch
(Niedermaier Design Team)
Manufacturers Bank
131. Furniture by the Brook
(Warren Hines and Diosdado Mondero)
Brook Furniture Rental
132. “Tweet” Home Chicago
(Gailene Cowger Fine)
Baird and Warner
133. Cultivating Growth
(Chicago Botanic Garden staff)
Harris Bank
134. Springin’!
(Home Fashion Team of Carson Pirie Scott’s Furniture Galleries)
Carson Pirie Scott & Company
135. Blah, Blah, Blah
(Sears CCM Design)
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
136. New Home Chicago
(N. Eden Unluata)
Lee Lumber
137. Untitled
(Darius Cyrlik)
Crowne Plaza Chicago — The Silversmith
138. Suite 37
(Gallery 37 Apprentice Artists)
Arts Matter Foundation
139. Douglas Transit Arts Program
(Little Black Pearl Workshop)
Chicago Transit Authority
140. Seat of the World
(Margaret Graham Caswell)
Margaret Graham Caswell
141. Untitled
Hotel Allegro
142. Sofa(r) from Home
(Patients of Rush Children’s Hospital with Instructors and Artists of Snow City Arts Foundation)
Snow City Arts Foundation
143. Goodman Stage Set #1: A Salute
(Mark Bickford and Ethan Allen Chicago Team)
Ethan Allen and Benjamin Moore
144. The Acme Theater’s — The History of Chicago Theatre
(Lauren Niimi, Michelle MacCabee, Bill Ryan, Danice Ivancevic and Encarnacion Teruel)
Holy Name Cathedral and Harvest on Huron
145. Odalisque
(KINC Chromize/Katherine Ross)
Marshall Field’s
146. Read Awhile
(Arman Sarrafian)
Harold Washington College
146A. Nutty-Popping at State and Lake
(Estelle Kenney)
Nuts on Clark
147. Untitled
(Creative Burnetters at Leo Burnett USA)
Leo Burnett USA
148. At Home in the Windy City
(Ross Fiersten)
Morningstar, Inc.
149. Sitty Seal
(Chris Holt and staff of Chicago Department of Transportation)
Chicago Department of Transportation
150. Kings of the Couch
(Glenn Wexler)
Boise Cascade Office Products Corporation
151. Sofa So Good
(Fairly Painless Advertising Group)
Herman Miller for the Home
152. Untitled
(IDEO)
Steelcase, Inc. & Johnson Associates
153. Untitled
Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.
154. Mission Chair (20 feet tall)
(Gustav Stickley and Toms-Price Home Furnishings, Wheaton and Lincolnshire)
Toms-Price Home Furnishings, Wheaton and Lincolnshire
154A. What Goes Around Comes Around
Amundsen/Drabik, Don Drabik
Freidman Properties
155. Jazz Roots
(Kathryn Gauthier)
House of Blues Hotel, A Loews Hotel
156. TV Dinner
(Veronique Fontaine)
Smith & Wollensky
157. Les Jardin de Metropolitan
(Glenn Harris)
Chicago Gateway Green Committee
174. Amazonian New Species
(Sharon Bladholm)
Garfield Park Conservatory
RIVER NORTH
2. Black and White and Read All Over
(Susan Mart, Frances Cox, Ellen Roth Deutsch, Beverly Kedzieor, Marilynn Weitzman (the name as published has been corrected in this text), Jan Calek, Marilyn Schulenber)
Newberry Library
158. Dialysis
(Patty Carroll)
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois
159. In Transit
(Boban Ilic)
East Bank Storage Co.
160. Via Couchina
(John T. Olson Decorators and deGiulio kitchen design, inc.)
deGiulio kitchen design
161. Indian Chair
(Niedermaier Design Team)
Wacker Apartments Hotel
162. Chicago in Black and White
(Jonathan Franklin)
Chicago Historical Society
163. ColorWeave
(April Head and Tracy Rateike)
Crate & Barrel
164. Steppenwolf Stage Set #1: A Salute
(Mhorag Taylor and Ethan Allen Skokie Team)
Ethan Allen and Benjamin Moore
175. Sunshine
(Children’s Expressions/Shari Swartz)
Children’s Memorial Hospital
176. A Dream Come True
(Courtney Johnson)
Walter E. Smithe Custom Furniture
179. Hands That Make Chicago Work
(Kenn Alex Levesque)
Chicago Department of Aviation
180. Bottoms Up
(Kim Chong Ok Massey)
Harpo Studios
MUSEUM CAMPUS/SOUTH
109 – 120. Works in Progress
(Gallery 37 Apprentice Artists)
Arts Matter Foundation
165. Eden’s Living Room
(Howard Blume, Sherae Patterson, Christopher Sasser, Michelle Loftin)
Bay Furniture and Gethsemane Garden Center
166. Ottttttto the Millipede
(Ion Cush)
Public Art Conservation Endowment
167. Submerged Vision
(Juan Carlos Frias)
John G. Shedd Aquarium
168. Casting Couch
(Patrick Knoll, Peter Taylor, David Javier, Herbie Diaz)
DDB Chicago and Skyline Design
169. As the World Turns
(Ronit Mitchell and Scott Bullock, Penumbra Studio)
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
170. Cleopatra’s Throne
(David Hanke)
The Field Museum
171. City in a Garden
(Robert Klunk)
Podmajersky Management
177. Broad Shoulders
(Randall Kramer)
Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
172. The Hollywood Davenporter
(John Llewellyn)
Museum of Science and Industry
173. Time Flies
(Niedermaier Design Team)
National Time Museum
178. Untitled
Chicago Department of Aviation
178A. Untitled
(Students of Chicago State University)
Chicago State University
