chinati at sunset.
(i'm seriously considering making the voyage.)

November 26, 2010 : Sunset










The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art museum based upon the ideas of its founder, Donald Judd. The specific intention of Chinati is to preserve and present to the public permanent large-scale installations by a limited number of artists. The emphasis is on works in which art and the surrounding landscape are inextricably linked. As Judd wrote in the foundation's catalogue:

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Somewhere, just as the platinum iridium meter guarantees the tape measure, a strict measure must exist for the art of this time and place.

The Chinati Foundation is located on 340 acres of land on the site of former Fort D.A. Russell in Marfa, Texas. Construction and installation at the site began in 1979 with initial assistance from the Dia Art Foundation in New York. The Chinati Foundation opened to the public in 1986 as an independent, non-profit, publicly funded institution. Chinati was originally conceived to exhibit the work of Donald Judd, John Chamberlain and Dan Flavin.

The collection was expanded and now includes 15 outdoor concrete works by Donald Judd, 100 aluminum works by Judd housed in two converted artillery sheds, 25 sculptures by John Chamberlain, an installation by Dan Flavin occupying six former army barracks, and works by Carl Andre, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Rabinowitch, and John Wesley. Each artist's work is installed in a separate building on the museum's grounds.





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1. Arata Isozaki, near Joshua Tree, Pioneer Town. I want/ must/ need to visit these forms and shapes in the California desert. (If anyone knows how I can visit, please write me directly!) This photo is scanned in from the recent World of Interiors Magazine, the September 2010 issue.

Isozaki, if I am correct, was the architect for the MOCA here in Los Angeles. A different form, but indeed, has the same sort of unfolding puzzle as this concrete form poured in the desert. There are three of these forms, that are built to match the seasons, and allow his children to experience the magic of the desert.

Does it get any better / more beautiful than this?




2. Michael Amato for Urban Electric Co.









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Todd Bracher
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Native New Yorker Todd Bracher, founder of Todd Bracher Studio, is a Designer and Educator currently based in New York City after ten years working in Copenhagen, Milan, Paris and London. His works have been curated by some of the most prestigious brands around the world from furniture design and table top, to interiors and architecture. His work has been included in major exhibitions around the world and has been pinned as “America’s next Great Designer’ by the NY Daily news among several nominations for Designer of the year in 2008 and 2009. His experience ranges from working independently, heading Tom Dixon’s design studio, acting as Professor of Design at L’ESAD in Reims France, to co-founding of the experimental collaboration ‘to22’, to most recently his appointment as Creative Director of the luxury brand Georg Jensen.

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strong forms.

1. dante marioni, glass
2. boyd sugiki, glass
3. gio ponti, lamp
4. jeff zimmerman, glass

1. Hiroaki Morino, Floating Cloud, a vase, 2005
2. Osamu Suzuki
3. Osamu Suzuki, Standing Figure of Jomon Era, 1984


"Osamu Suzuki is one of the most important figures in the history of modern Japanese ceramics. He began life involved in the pottery trade, his father was a production potter (a ceramic artist working to create multiples of a utilitarian item e.g. 30 bowls, all very similar) and he, himself, attended and graduated from the Kyoto Second Industrial School. Despite his skill and formal training in the production arts, he began to seek another approach to ceramics. He started to collaborate with other artists, and became a founding member of the Sodeisha. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he started experimenting with variations on traditional, functional forms. Over time, his works evolved into pure sculpture, with no discernable practical function. His “clay images,” as he calls them, are inspired by nature; each meant to capture an aspect of its essence."


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gino sarfatti


charlie davidson design

"Like an explosion or eruption frozen in time, the Black-light hangs like an ominous cloud projecting rays of intense coloured light from within its torn and charred surface.
Black-light is assembled from layers of thin black foil that are scrunched up to give the material a structure and also the light its form. 800mm in diameter."


louise nevelson
wood....


krysten cunningham
thomas solomon gallery


arturo herrera
felt....



tom dixon table

knoll credenza