This model of a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 airplane was painted by artist Alexander Calder to provide a paint scheme for Dallas-based Braniff Airlines' Flying Colors, a full-scale aircraft providing passenger service between North and South America.

The radical Memphis Group was formed in Milan by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass on December 11, 1980, and consisted of an international group of designers and architects that challenged mainstream design. The influential group was famous for brightly colored postmodern furniture, lighting, and ceramics that shook up the Milanese design scene.

The totemic Carlton room divider is an outstanding example of the work of Ettore Sottsass, the defacto leader of the Memphis Group, a Milan-based collective of furniture and product designers whose work rose to prominence in the 1980s.

Once a sleepy West Texas town, Marfa, Texas became the unlikely focus of the art world when renowned Minimalist artist Donald Judd moved his home and studio there in the early 1970s to escape the art scene in New York City. On his compound there are a total of 15 private living and working spaces including studios installed with artwork by Judd and others.

Donald Judd became a seminal force in sculpture in the early 1960s with a group of floor-based structures that eliminated ambiguity and ornamentation in favor of essential geometries and the straightforward presentation of color, materials, and shape. Pared down to elemental, geometric forms, they were seen at the time as the culmination of the modernist reduction of each medium to its essential characteristics.

In 1973, the artist Donald Judd (American, 1928-1994) moved his studio to Marfa, Texas. Lack of quality furniture available in Marfa prompted him to construct his first beds, chairs, tables, and desks for his own use.

Designed and manufactured by Frank O. Gehry in 1972, this chair belongs to his "Easy Edges" collection - group of seventeen pieces of cardboard furniture which brought the young architect national attention.

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