A quatrefoil design was incorporated into the ironwork and was carried into the building from the same impression on the building's terra cotta exterior. The Hotel Burnham's interior designer is Las Angeles - based Susan Caruso. Envisioning The Burnham as an intimate jewel box, Caruso wanted to fuse the hotel's business locale and amenities with whimsy and romance. Mozart's fifth symphony is scripted in the guest room curtains. Cherubs dance on the comforters and adorn the walls.
Swans swim in the corridor carpeting - the epitome of romance as they mate for life.
The Reliance Building, and 1894 innovation, joins the burgeoning and thriving State Street and Loop District and moves into the new millennium as The Hotel Burnham. The Hotel Burnham is across from Marshall Field's State Street and with in one block of the Oriental, Goodman, Chicago and Palace Theatres.