Donald Judd Furniture Joinery

Donald judd furniture continues to be made to his original specifications stamped and numbered sequentially.

Donald judd furniture joinery.

Donald clarence judd june 3 1928 february 12 1994 was an american artist associated with minimalism a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed. In the 1950s he studied philosophy and art history and took classes at the art students league in new york. Over 70 of his designs are available for custom order. 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.

He was first publicly recognized as an art critic writing reviews for arts magazine from 1959 65. Nevertheless he is generally considered the. American artist donald judd was not only one of the most pivotal artists of the twentieth century but he was also a designer and avid collector of good design with his furniture collection and his work works presented in the donald judd. In his work judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy.

In 1977 he returned to furniture design through necessity for furniture for his residence in marfa texas. Specific furniture exhibition currently on display at the san francisco museum of modern art. Over 70 of his designs are available for custom order. Now held and overseen by the judd foundation judd s.

Donald judd is a landmark figure in the history of postwar art. It was during this time that he developed from an abstract painter into the producer of the hollow. Donald judd furniture continues to be made to his original specifications stamped and numbered sequentially.