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Design Quiz Time: Help Identify These Mid-Century Modern Pieces

By Rain Noe - June 8, 2011

in Object Culture

Remember "American Look," the short film we blogged about a couple of years ago (see Part 1 after the jump, the others at the link above) showing the best of American design circa 1958? Alexis Madrigal over at The Atlantic has been watching it and is attempting to identify 49 of the objects shown in the film. He's screen-shotted the ones in question—some examples are above, and at the very least you should recognize the Noguchi if you were paying attention in ID History class—and as of press time, 18 of the 49 had been identified by sharp-eyed readers.

Ready to get in there and flex your knowledge? Peep Madrigal's slideshow here and fill in the blanks.

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Love it! I sent this link to my mom to see if the woman in the kitchen scene is her. It looks just like her. She was a model for Jam Handy in the late 50s, early 60s with the typical Grace Kelly looks. She did many films like this one, catalog work and auto show modeling for GM and AMC. Now I am curious to try to find all of the old modeling pics I have of her. Hoping she might remember if she did this film but that was quite a while ago now!. It would be great if it really is her. Thanks for the great piece of design history.
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