Europe, 1900-2000 Flashcards
Frankfurt Kitchen
Type: interior
Materials/Techniques: various
Creator/Culture: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky/German
Date/Period: ca. 1926
Style Period: modernist
Repository: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Type: agit-prop poster, print
Materials/Techniques: Poster, color lithograph, printed in red and black on off-white wove paper
Creator/Culture: El Lissitsky/Russian
Date/Period: 1919
B-3 or “Wassily” Chair
Type: seating furniture
Materials/Techniques: chrome-plated tubular steel and canvas (later versions: leather)
Creator/Culture: Marcel Breur/German
Date/Period: ca. 1925
Style Period/School: Bauhaus
Repository: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Corner “État” Cabinet
Type: case furniture
Materials/Techniques: Macassar ebony, amaranth, ivory, oak, lumber-core plywood, poplar, chestnut, mahogany, silvered brass/inlay
Creator/Culture: Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann/French
Date/Period: Designed 1922; manufactured 1925–26
Style Period: ambiguous revival
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of ARt, New York
Lounge Chair No. 41 (Painio chair)
Type: seating furniture
Materials/Techniques: laminated birch
Creator/Culture: Alvar Aalto (designer)/Finnish
Date/Period: 1931-32
Style Period: Scandinavian Modern
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
SK 4 Radio Record Player
Type: music equipment
Materials/Techniques: painted metal, wood, plastic
Creator/Culture: Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot (designers) for Braun/German
Date/Period: 1956
Repository: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Casablanca Sideboard
Type: case furniture
Materials/Techniques: wood, plastic laminate
Creator/Culture: Ettore Sottsass (Memphis Group)/Italian
Date/Period: 1981
Style Period: Postmodern
Repository: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Calyx
Type: textile
Materials/Techniques: printed cotton
Creator/Culture: Lucienne Day/British
Date/Period: 1951
Style Period: Modern
Repository: various
Sargeant Pepper
Type: LP cover
Materials/Techniques: photomontage, photography
Creator/Culture: Peter Blake/British
Date/Period: 1967
Style Period: Post-war Mod/Youth Culture
You can’t lay down your memory
Type: chest of drawers
Materials/Techniques: repurposed drawers
Creator/Culture: Droog Collective/Dutch (Amsterdam)
Date/Period: 1991
Style Period: Postmodernism
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