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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Midwest2025-02-01Y66.6750%17%0%
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DukeLiberty C0000
UNC CLiberty A0000
UNC DLiberty B100010
Virginia AUNC B1010020
Virginia Tech AWake Forest010010
William & MarySouth Carolina0000
Chicago BWashU B010010
Chicago DIllinois C100010
Illinois BIllinois A0000
Indiana AChicago A010010
Missoui S&TIndiana B0000
WashU AMissouri010010
BUUMass Boston100010
Brandeis BBrown A010010
Harvard AMIT A010010
Tufts AHarvard B010010
AlbertaUW A0000
UW BUBC010010
Northwestern AIowa1010020
Notre Dame ANorthwestern B010010
Notre Dame BGeorgetown B0000
Stanford BPurdue010010
BristolSouthampton B010010
ManchesterCambridge B100010
Warwick BCambridge E0000
Cambridge ALSE0000
Imperial BNYU C0000
Imperial AOxford A100010
Oxford BSouthampton A010010
Oxford CDurham0000
SheffieldCambridge C0000
Cambridge DWarwick A010010
Columbia BMaryland B010010
Yale ACornell B1010020
George Washington BHaverford B010010
Haverford AJohns Hopkins A010010
Maryland APenn A0000
NYU BVassar A100010
NYU APenn B10101030
Rutgers AColumbia C1010020