Global innovators, sleek furniture, and an Italian city feted as a European design capital set the scene for NYIT’s School of Architecture and Design to display student work on April 17-22 at the Milan Furniture Fair. A team of NYIT interior design and architecture students, alumni, faculty, and staff presented a chaise lounge, desk, and video about the school’s programs.

The trade fair is the largest international design show in the world—the main fairground is a 5.7-million-squarefoot exhibition space—and draws more than 300,000 people annually. NYIT was one of only two U.S. universities invited to present at the SaloneSatellite exhibition for emerging designers. Participating NYIT students included interior design majors Liz Cuadrado, Ashley Sarazen, and Barbara Schoenenberger (B.F.A. ’12), who conceived a chaise lounge on display at the NYIT booth, and architecture major Alex Alaimo.

“I am thankful for having had many conversations with artisans, architects, designers, and students from schools around the globe,” Schoenenberger says.

Prior to the event, students painted New York-style graffiti on panels that were cut into 10,000 reflectors, which were given out at the fair. The reflectors drew recipients to NYIT’s website and were so popular that they had all been distributed by the exhibition’s last day. Students blogged about their experiences, including how fashionistas wore them as buttons after hours. Read more at nyit.edu/architecture/milan.

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