Question
Preserving peace between Westalis and Ostania is a stressful job for the characters of Spy x Family, which must be why they relax on some comfy and famous chairs on the volume covers! For 10 points each:
[10m] The first volume features the spy Twilight sitting cross-legged on the second in a series of chairs given this designer’s initials and number, which follow this designer’s human scale-based “Modulor” system.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Edouard Jeanneret]
[10h] The telepath Anya sits playfully on this chair designed by Irving Harper from George Nelson Associates. This chair connects a series of cushions shaped like its namesake objects.
ANSWER: marshmallow sofa [or Marshmallow Love Seat #5670]
[10e] Counterintelligence agent Yuri Briar leans back on the Barcelona chair in the fifth volume cover, potentially signaling Yuri’s alignment with this modernist Weimar-era school of design and architecture. Mies van der Rohe, this school’s last director, co-designed the Barcelona chair.
ANSWER: Bauhaus [or Straatliches Bauhaus]
<JF, Other Arts: Visual>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Cambridge B | Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Edinburgh | Cambridge A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford | Durham | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Bristol | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Warwick | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |