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Quiz: Test Your Knowledge Of Iconic Design Classics
Can you tell an Eames chair from a Wassily chair? Differentiate Mary Quant’s mini design from an Alec Issigonis one? If so, then put your design knowledge to the test!
By StaffScroll
With the growth in affordable home furnishings – from IKEA to a million other contenders – inspired and inspiring home design is now more accessible than ever before. But where do all those oh-so cool, contemporary favourites originate from? And how many of the world’s most iconic designs do you know as well as you think you know them?
Take our simple test and see how familiar you really are with the quintessential design classics.
1. Marcel Breuer served as head of cabinet-making at Germany’s famous Bauhaus, but when did he create his striking ‘Wassily’ chair?
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2. The ‘Barcelona’ chair is an icon of sophisticated elegance, but when and for what event did Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich create the design?
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3. In 1933, Harry Beck introduced a radical map design for the London Underground, inspired by what?
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4. Sometimes even the most humble of products are touched by design genius. In what year did László Bíró patent the design of his ‘Biro’ pen?
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5. The influential Milanese design guru Achille Castiglioni created the iconic free-standing ‘Arco’ lamp in what year?
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6. We’ll help you this time by revealing that the legendary ‘Eames’ chair was created in 1956, but how were the married designer couple named?
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7. Alec Issigonis created a symbol of the Swinging Sixties with his groundbreaking car design, the Mini. At the time, what was the major reason for taking to the drawing board?
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8. Which fashion designer is credited with first popularising another symbol of the Swinging Sixties: the miniskirt?
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9. Sleek, simple, modern design and a triumph of form and function – but when did Dieter Rams’ T3 Pocket Radio for Braun first appear?
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10. Equally sleek, simple, modern design and a triumph of form and function, the era-defining Apple iPod first appeared in 2001. Who is the mind behind the design?
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Image Credits:
Question 3: Photo via geographic.org.uk
Question 5: Photo via ambientedirect.com