Re:Donald Judd's Iconic Chair 84 Design (2020)
by joehartshorn on Saturday March 13, 2021 @09:36PM
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Don's rebuttal; "I am often told that the furniture is not comfortable, and in that not functional. The source of the question is in the overstuffed bourgeois Victorian furniture, which, as I said, never ceased. The furniture is comfortable to me. Rather than making a chair to sleep in or a machine to live in, it is better to make a bed. A straight chair is best for eating or writing. The third position is standing." - 'It's Hard To Find A Good Lamp' 1993
http://s3.amazonaws.com/juddfoundation.org/wp-content/upload...
I'd also suggest reading "Being Dumb" by Kenneth Goldsmith, as a reminder that not everything requires a strict practicality to be great.
Re:Donald Judd's Iconic Chair 84 Design (2020)
by alanbernstein on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:53AM
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A yoga ball is actually a better chair than this thing.
In other words, if a chair so badly fits most humans, should it be called a chair? A sphere can be used as a chair, and it is even simpler or more pure design-wise, but we don’t call it a chair.