MADE IN CHICAGO

Making Cool Sh*t Since 1988

From restaurants to retail stores, larger-than-life installations to simple branding opportunities, our goal is to create a positive personal engagement between your brand and your guest.

Not your typical
design firm.

From design to fabrication to installation, our multidisciplinary team of experts handles every aspect of the process in-house.

DESIGN

As owners and operators ourselves, we bring a cross-disciplinary mindset to each project, designing the entire guest experience from functional and operational perspectives.

FABRICATION

With the capability to manufacture custom designs and designs of others, we are able to find solutions to the most challenging ideas, resulting in one-of-a-kind elements unique to their own environment.

MANAGEMENT

Our project managers are multidisciplinary experts who handle every aspect of the project, from design to fabrication to installation, ensuring that your vision is delivered on time and on budget.

Business & Brand Strategy

We partner with our clients to help them identify business opportunities, understand their core audience, and effectively tackle creative design and production challenges by approaching each project with an operations mindset.

Concept

Development

We design our spaces with a cross-disciplinary approach, thinking through the entirety of the guest experience: starting with brand creation, moving through spatial design, and ideating those special moments that keep people coming back time and time again.

Design & Documentation

We will work with you at every step of the process to ensure all design concepts are executed to their highest potential while staying on time and budget.

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Production & Fabrication

Our in-house craftsmen's expertise ensures that we are able to produce one-of-a-kind pieces from concepts with little to no surprises. This allows us to keep the budget a priority while still delivering high quality, custom pieces and environments to our customers.

Construction & Administration

Our hands on approach to construction starts from the top down. Our leadership's commitment to seeing all projects through from start to finish. ensure a project delivered that exceeds the client's expectations.

with a lot of moving parts we provide an anchor.

Our team of Designers, Project Managers, Engineers, and Craftsmen work together cross-functionally, ensuring that all designs and processes are being reviewed and monitored by a closely interconnected group.

over 34 years of experience

We have worked with some of the largest and most notable Hospitality and Retail groups in the world.

At 555, we look at the "big picture". We ask the questions that are usually never asked. We listen to your dreams, we add our experience and insight, and turn those dreams into reality. We strive to engage the guest, enhance their experience, and service their wants and needs. These environments are what become some of our proudest work.

We make cool shit, and we love doing it.