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Donald Judd
Eight-piece dinner set in sterling silver

Donald Judd

In partnership with the Judd Foundation, Puiforcat is creating an eight-piece table service designed by American artist Donald Judd in the late 1980s and left behind in draft form upon his demise.
Dinner Service in sterling silver

For nearly four decades, Donald Judd demonstrated his mastery of scale and proportion, through his artwork of course, but also through architecture and design projects. In 1989, Judd imagined a table service that thoroughly embodies his aesthetic philosophy.

Outlining an array of cylindrical shapes intersected by perpendicular planes, the artist designed a series of bowls, plates and cups. The original set, made up of several ceramic plates and stainless steel prototypes, fell short of the sharp-edged precision Donald Judd hoped to achieve. Today, Puiforcat is producing these pieces in sterling silver.

Puiforcat Dinner service dinner plate in sterling silver
Dinner Service in sterling silver
Heeding the specifications in the artist’s concept sketches and technical drawings, housed in the Judd Foundation archives in Marfa, Texas, Puiforcat silversmiths fashioned his creations in sterling silver using traditional silversmithing techniques to ensure the level of precision considered the standard for Donald Judd’s work.

A collection handmade by Puiforcat's silversmiths...

The collection Dinner Service by Donald Judd is made entirely in the Puiforcat workshop in the Paris region. Here, a dinner plate is being made.

The service includes eight complementary pieces - dinner plate, bread, soup, salad and dessert - as well as a round dish, a large bread plate and a cup. Created in various dimensions, these objects form a complete table set.

Salad bowl in sterling silver from Dinner Service by Donald Judd on a wood table in a very bright room
Salad bowl from the collection Dinner Service by Puiforcat