To mark the release of the Donald Judd Furniture book we have selected six key pieces of furniture designed by the American artist.
Created through a collaboration between the Judd Foundation and publisher MACK, the Donald Judd Furniture book documents 104 furniture pieces created by the artist for his New York and Marfa, Texas, properties.
The book contains photos of all the pieces that remain in production through the foundation, along with newly commissioned perspective and elevation drawings of each piece and archival sketches by Judd.
Donald Judd Furniture documents 104 furniture pieces by the artist
The book also contains several essays by Judd, where he aimed to explain his views on furniture, its connections to his architecture and art and how it was designed to clearly fulfil a purpose. "There's an interesting disparity between the art and the architecture that I've made and what I've written on the two subjects," wrote Judd in an essay published in Donald Judd Furniture. "My work as art is very new in the world."
"The work as architecture that I've been able to do on my own is also new, but not as new, due to a lack of money and consequently technology, but also genuinely due to less need to be new, since as architecture it's concerned with its purposes. The furniture is not so unusual but is still fairly new, due to taking it easy and letting the purpose dominate," he continued.
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