BSC Architecture

Street Seats is a furniture project developed by BSC for the art fair ‘The Armory Show’ on Pier 94 in Manhattan. 50 chairs, found abandoned on the streets of New York, were repaired and given a new life with a coat of taxicab yellow paint.

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When we were commissioned to design The Armory Show on Piers 92 and 94 in Manhattan, the desire to make the fair-going experience more humane gave us the impetus to develop a furniture project that would furnish the social spaces in the fair in an interesting way on a limited budget. Street Seats references New York City’s iconic taxicabs, grounding the fair in its local context in the midst of an increasingly globalized art world.

Like the city’s residents, the chairs are an eclectic mix, migrating throughout the fair during its five-day run.

The bottom of each chair is stamped and documented with the date and location of where it was recovered.

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Street Theater is a staging of Street Seats in a busy pedestrian plaza in Times Square. Sponsored by Times Square Arts for NYCxDesign week, Street Theater arranged the seats in 7 rows of 7, the installation mimicking theater seating with Times Square as its stage. As the plaza is occupied throughout the day, the chairs’ movement and rearrangement became a performance about the ways in which people inhabit the public realm and shape it to suit their needs.

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Street Theater is a staging of Street Seats in a busy pedestrian plaza in Times Square. Sponsored by Times Square Arts for NYCxDesign week, Street Theater arranged the seats in 7 rows of 7, the installation mimicking theater seating with Times Square as its stage. As the plaza is occupied throughout the day, the chairs’ movement and rearrangement became a performance about the ways in which people inhabit the public realm and shape it to suit their needs.

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Street Theater is a staging of Street Seats in a busy pedestrian plaza in Times Square. Sponsored by Times Square Arts for NYCxDesign week, Street Theater arranged the seats in 7 rows of 7, the installation mimicking theater seating with Times Square as its stage. As the plaza is occupied throughout the day, the chairs’ movement and rearrangement became a performance about the ways in which people inhabit the public realm and shape it to suit their needs.

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Street Theater is a staging of Street Seats in a busy pedestrian plaza in Times Square. Sponsored by Times Square Arts for NYCxDesign week, Street Theater arranged the seats in 7 rows of 7, the installation mimicking theater seating with Times Square as its stage. As the plaza is occupied throughout the day, the chairs’ movement and rearrangement became a performance about the ways in which people inhabit the public realm and shape it to suit their needs.

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