JUDD FOUNDATION NEW YORK

  • Donald Judd, 1968
  • 101 Spring St, New York, New York, USA

Second to Eames for us and many on the homes+studies journey is the American artist and furniture designer, Donald Judd. In 1968, Judd purchased 101 Spring Street for $65K, a former garment factory and five story cast-iron building located in SoHo in New York City. Designed by Nicholas Whyte and constructed in 1870, it was the first building Judd owned and served as his New York home and studio!

Judd wrote in 1989 in an essay titled “101 Spring Street”:
“My requirements were that the building be useful for living and working and more importantly, more definitely, be a space in which to install work of mine and of others. At first I thought the building large, but now I think it small; it didn’t hold much work after all. I spent a great deal of time placing the art and a great deal designing the renovation in accordance”.

The house is filled with artwork from his many of his contemporaries, Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, and Ad Reinhardt, and furniture by Alvar Aalto, Gerrit Rietveld, and of course Donald Judd himself.

Similar to the Eames house, the works on view at 101 Spring Street remain as installed by Judd.