Two new exhibitions of inventive 3D works by students from SVA’s BFA Design and BFA Interior Design programs are stopping the public in their tracks during this month's NYC X Design. Each shows imaginative and whimsical interpretations on a theme. For “Chairs that Inspire on the Chairousel,” currently up in New York City’s Times Square, students created sculptural chairs representing their wide range of inspirations—food, space rockets, furry creatures, found objects, lollipops—to spin on a refurbished, operating 1960s carousel. Topped by a comically oversized chair, the full piece rises almost three stories tall and can be seen from blocks away.
“Chairousel” is co-curated by SVA alumnus and 3D Design Chair Kevin O’Callaghan and BFA Interior Design Chair Dr. Carol Bentel, and is one of 16 installations displayed within the Design Pavilion, a central hub for NYC X Design, New York’s citywide design celebration through May 22. The Pavilion, stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets across five plazas, provides a showcase for prominent and emerging designers alike to collaborate and innovate and for the public to engage with their imaginative built environments. This year, more than 5 million people are expected to pass through the free displays in the heart of Times Square, Manhattan’s historic “crossroads of the world.”

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