Trademark Takes Texas: Pookie and Louisa Burch’s Marfa Must-Sees Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark1/15One of our first stops was Marfa Book Company. They had an amazing collectsion of books about artists related to the Chinati Foundation and a group of sculptures by Benoît Platéus. It is right next door to a great coffee shop where we went every morning.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark2/15One of our first stops was Marfa Book Company. They had an amazing collectsion of books about artists related to the Chinati Foundation and a group of sculptures by Benoît Platéus. It is right next door to a great coffee shop where we went every morning.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark3/15Around the corner from the Marfa Book Company we found amazing handmade straw hats by Michael Malone.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark4/15We ran into a friend of ours, Melissa Bent, and her husband, Michael Phelan—they recently moved to Marfa and opened a gallery, United Artists, Ltd. This is a photo of the Lumbar Yard, one of two spaces they have in Marfa.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark5/15A good friend of ours told us about Moonlight Gemstones, a tiny store that sells an amazing selection of agates. This is some rose quartz.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark6/15This art studio was one of our favorite spots while looking at the many Donald Judd buildings in Marfa. This space had been a former grocery store and had lots of prototypes and fabrication materials that were particularly special to see. The way the space was laid out was incredible.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark7/15This photo is taken in one of the two libraries at La Mansana de Chinati. This housed Donald Judd’s personal collectsions of books and objects organized by subject. This was our favorite space we saw.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark8/15Before dinner at Cochineal, we stopped by the Hotel Paisano for a drink. It is a very special, historic hotel where James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Dennis Hopper all stayed while filming Giant.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark9/15The next day we did the full-day tour of the Chinati Foundation. One of the first stops was a building with a piece by Carl Andre in the courtyard. The building reminded us of something you would see in Japan, but is actually an old army barrack.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark10/15In the next building was a work by Ilya Kabakov, School No. 6. It was an interesting contrast to the other work in the collectsion.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark11/15Louisa and our friend Abby exploring outside of the Arena, one of our favorite spaces at the Foundation.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark12/15Before heading to lunch at The Capri, we stopped by Mano Mercantile, a store and gallery that had just opened. There was a beautiful teepee by Beau Buck.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark13/15In the afternoon we went back to the Chinati Foundation. We started with Dan Flavin’s Untitled (Marfa Project), 1996. It occupied six former army barracks.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark14/15Our favorite part of the collectsion was Donald Judd’s 15 Untitled Works in Concrete, 1980-1984. The photo doesn’t even begin to express the scale and impact the work has on the landscape.
Photo: Courtesy of Trademark15/15On our drive, we came across this barn and were struck by the color of the bright blue doors.
