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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
11/19/2007

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Chryselephantine
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A decorative approach to objects.

Not so functional, but pretty

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Who designed the Womb Chair

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Eero Saarinen

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Never Leave Well Enough Alone
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Raymond Loewy

You can always improve design

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Planned Obsolescence
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Brooks Stevens-Always want something better, newer than necessary
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Who designed for the London Underground
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Mcknight Kauffer
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Who created l'Esprit Nouveau
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Le Corbusier
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Who designed a Green Bugatti
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Tamarra de Lempika
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Who created Fiesta Ware
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Frederick Rhead
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Who Designed the Artichoke Lamp

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Henningsen
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Who designed the textiles electric and Manhattan
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Ruth Reeves
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The airflow was from what car company
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Chrysler
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Who discovered King Tuts Tomb
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Howard Carter
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Who designed the egg chair
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Jacobsen
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Who designed elegant furniture that featured amboyna shagreen and shark shin
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Jacques Emile Ruhlmann
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What movement influenced stevens when he designed 3m products

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De Stijl

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MAYA
Definition

Most Advanced Yet Acceptable

Loewy

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Coldspot
Definition
A fridge designed by Loewy
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Weiner Mobile
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Brooks Stevens
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E1027
Definition
Eileen Gray's tubular steel table
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Biomorphism
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Organic and natural curves. Almost amoebic shapes. Very curvilinear
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Artichoke Lamp
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Made by Henningson, the lamp is made of many pieces of flat glass
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What building has hubcaps and hood ornaments on it
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The Chrysler building in NYC
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L'atlantique
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Cassandre-Huge Block Ship
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I have seen the future
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The pin that was given after visitors left the GM futurama exhibit
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What influenced Art Moderne
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Ancient Egypt
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What influenced Corbusier's Purism
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The golden section and modern machine aesthetic
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Bifur Typeface
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Ugly typeface by cassandre
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Harley Earl
Definition
Designed the Streamlined Chevy Bel Air
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Who designed the ugly studebaker avanti
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Raymond Loewy
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Roxy Rothafel
Definition
Had the apartment in radio city music hall.
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Machine Aesthetic
Definition
The idea of making machines look good
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l'esprit nouveau
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Corbusier's dining room. Used items from a catalog
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Trilon and Perisphere
Definition

Found at the worlds fair. Trilon housed an elevator. Perisphere housed democracity

 

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Democracity
Definition
The city of the future found in the perisphere at the worlds fair
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Dubonnet
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Cassandre drink advertisement
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Lacquering
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Eileen Gray
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What movement Influenced Gray
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Cubism and De Stijl
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Jacques Emilie Ruhlman created in the style of
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French art Deco
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What was Donald Deskey's Style called
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Streamlined Moderne
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Who designed the radio city music hall
Definition
Deskey
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Who designed the savoy vase?
Definition
Aalto. The vase was flowy in an organic way
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Who said that the house is a machine for living in?
Definition
Le Corbusier
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What is the Engineer's Aesthetic
Definition
A visual language resulting from the most rational and efficient forms of design
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