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Deets: Times Square Arts is pleased to present Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio's Love Ever After as the winner of the 17th annual Love & Design Competition, on display from February 4 – March 4, 2025 with the support of curatorial partner The World Around and collaborator Billion Oyster Project.

Love Ever After is designed to create beauty through simplicity, where reuse, regrowth, and love for the environment and community are an integral part of its story. The project assembles metal mesh used for oyster reef cages to create a three-dimensional grid revealing geometries of a heart. The three-dimensional heart flickers and shifts color and shape as the angle of its perception changes, creating a tactile and human-scale experience in contrast to the high-tech screens for which Times Square is famous.

Accompanying the installation will be an additional oyster cage filled with shells, symbolizing the future of Love Ever After: after February, the pieces of the heart will become oyster reef cages placed around New York City's shoreline, monitored by hundreds of volunteers as part of Billion Oyster Project's mission to restore one billion oysters back to New York Harbor by 2035.

For seventeen years, Times Square Arts has hosted the Love & Design competition to celebrate the work of innovative, emerging architecture and design firms, and speak to themes of love during the month of February in Times Square. The finalists for this year’s competition included: Atelier Masomi, Jerome Haferd, Space Caviar, and Studio Galeon.

Hint for the Average Socialite: This event is free and open to the public.

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