Marfa Donald Judd Furniture

There was no furniture and none to be bought either old since the town marfa texas had not shrunk or changed much since its beginning in 1883 or new since the few stores sold only fake antiques or tubular kitchen furniture with plastic surfaces printed with inane.

Marfa donald judd furniture. The development and production of donald judd s furniture resulted partially from necessity as he wrote in 1993. Russell in marfa texas. Donald judd furniture continues to be made to his original specifications stamped and numbered sequentially. Nevertheless he is generally considered the.

Retrospective in 30 years of artist donald judd s work opened at moma you hardly have to be a diehard judd head who s made the pilgrimage to marfa to recognize the. In the early 1970s donald judd began to design furniture for 101 spring street in new york with his first designs were a wood bed and metal sinks. The lead time for custom order wood furniture is a minimum of 18 weeks. The chinati foundation la fundación chinati is a contemporary art museum created by donald judd located on 340 acres of land on the site of former fort d a.

In 1977 he returned to furniture design through necessity for furniture for his residence in marfa texas. It was 1982 in the remote desert town of marfa texas and rainer and flavin judd daughter and son of artist donald judd had just moved into rooms of their own. Over 70 of his designs are available for custom order. Donald clarence judd june 3 1928 february 12 1994 was an american artist associated with minimalism a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed.

Customers are responsible for arrangement of shipping from donald judd furniture to destination of choice. This week the first u s. Orders are subject to import fees based on country of destination. Judd held an unrivalled collection of some of the best designs in the world.

A 50 deposit is required to initiate production. In both his homes 101 spring street in new york and marfa texas now maintained by the judd foundation it is evident how judd wanted to live his life surrounding himself with good design a big collector of minimalist furniture design he was drawn to work which had been created with a clear intention. The specific intention of chinati is to preserve and present to the public permanent large scale installations by a select group of artists.