Book It Now: The Ritz-Carlton Chicago

The Four Seasons' classic Ritz-Carlton Chicago hotel has gone all suite 'n' sassy on us, thanks to a multimillion-dollar facelift by Bryant Hughes Design Studios. The firm—also behind Four Seasons properties in Costa Rica, Egypt and Jackson Hole—has paired custom-designed ebony furniture with accents like gray sateen draperies and ergonomic leather desk chairs to bring a modern twist to the Ritz's traditional charm. Technology upgrades offer each room wireless Internet and flatscreen TVs, and framed abstract photographs of famous Chicago architecture, such as Marina City, dress the walls. fourseasons.com.

–Jessie Goldberg, Modern Luxury Magazines  

Photo by Peter Peirce.