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Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert

English

By (author): Casey Dunn Helen Thompson

Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art worlds most intriguing destinations.

When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called among the largest and most beautiful in the world, and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape.

In keeping with Judds site-specific intentions, those who call Marfa home have made a choice to live in concert with their untamed, open surroundings. Marfa Modern features houses that represent unique responses to this setting - the sky, its light and sense of isolation - some that even predate Judds arrival.

Here, conceptual artist Michael Phelan lives in a former Texaco service station with battery acid stains on the concrete floor and a twenty-foot dining table lining one wall. A chefs modest house comes with the satisfaction of being handmade down to its side tables and bath, which expands into a private courtyard with an outdoor tub. Another artist uses the many rooms of her house, a former jail, to shift between different mediums - with Judds Fort D. A. Russell works always visible from her second-story sun porch.

Extraordinary building costs mean that Marfa dwellers embrace a culture of frontier ingenuity and freedom from excesssalvaged metal signs become sliding doors and lengths of pipe become lighting fixtures, industrial warehouses are redesigned after the areas white-cube galleries to create space for private or personally created art collections, and other materials are suggested by the land itself: walls are made of adobe bricks or rammed earth to form sculptural courtyards, or, in one remarkable instance, a mix of mud and brick plastered with local soils, cactus mucilage, horse manure, and straw.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1246g
  • Dimensions: 262 x 282mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Monacelli Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781580934732

About Casey DunnHelen Thompson

Helen Thompson is a nationally known writer whose areas of specialty include interior design architecture and food. She was formerly a food writer and editor for Texas Monthly magazine and the Texas city editor for Metropolitan Home magazine. She has also written and produced articles for Architectural Digest Dwell Elle Decor House Beautiful Martha Stewart Living Traditional Home Veranda and many other magazines. She is the author of The Big Texas Steakhouse Cookbook and The Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook. Casey Dunn is an Austin-based architectural and landscape photographer whose work has appeared in Architectural Digest Architectural Record Dwell Interior Design magazine the New York Times Magazine and Paper City.

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