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elements—back and arms—in a tall wooden
embrace, Judd achieved a structure which
feels protective as well as comfortable. It is
sleek, even slick, yet it is cozy. Judd made
things plain, and yet they are hospitable.
On the fourth floor of Spring Street is the
following ensemble: an enormous Frank Stella
painting, Concentric Circles (1967) and a huge
table made by Judd, coupled with architect
Gerrit Rietveld's famous zigzag chairs of 1934.
Rietveld, designing furniture in the second
decade of the twentieth century, is perhaps
the designer most cognate to Judd: aiming
for an ultimate simplicity in construction, his
chairs—and the house he designed in 1924 for
Truus Schroder in Utrecht—attain the status
of art because, to lift Judd's words, he "didn't
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