Question
Women with design studios in this city include Cini Boeri (“CHEE-nee bo-AY-ree”), who co-created the glass “Ghost” armchair, and Gae Aulenti, who oversaw the conversion of a train station into the Musée d’Orsay (“moo-ZAY dor-SAY”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city where Ettore Sottsass (“ETT-oh-ray SOT-sass”) led the flashy Memphis Group of designers. The “neo-rationalist” designer who wrote Architecture of the City was from this city, where the Compasso d’Oro is awarded.
ANSWER: Milan [or Milano; accept Nova Milanese] (Aldo Rossi wrote Architecture of the City.)
[10e] Sottsass’s Tahiti model of this sort of appliance resembles a toy drinking bird. Clara Driscoll led a group of women who designed stained-glass Art Nouveau instances of these appliances for Tiffany & Co.
ANSWER: lamps [or table lamps; accept lampshades]
[10h] This designer created an ad promoting Sottsass’s glossy red design for the Olivetti Valentine typewriter. This designer created the cover of Angels in America and a psychedelic 1966 poster for Bob Dylan.
ANSWER: Milton Glaser
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Summary
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 6.67 | 50% | 17% | 0% |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 5.00 | 30% | 20% | 0% |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 75% | 50% | 13% |
Data
Duke | Liberty C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UNC C | Liberty A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UNC D | Liberty B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Virginia A | UNC B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
William & Mary | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chicago B | WashU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago D | Illinois C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Illinois B | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Indiana A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Missoui S&T | Indiana B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
WashU A | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
BU | UMass Boston | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Brandeis B | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Harvard A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tufts A | Harvard B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Alberta | UW A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UW B | UBC | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Northwestern A | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stanford B | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Bristol | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Manchester | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Warwick B | Cambridge E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cambridge A | LSE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Imperial B | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Imperial A | Oxford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Oxford B | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Oxford C | Durham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sheffield | Cambridge C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cambridge D | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Columbia B | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Yale A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
George Washington B | Haverford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Maryland A | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NYU B | Vassar A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
NYU A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Rutgers A | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |