Judd devised wooden chairs, tables, beds and shelves whose simple, geometric forms echoed those of his sculpture, as well as being frugal and expedient.
But his wife (Claire Foy) brought him home, and soon, with the help of an inventor friend, Robin devised the Cavendish chair, a cozy wheelchair/ventilator, and began to explore the world.
One of the principal qualifications for bohemianism is never having two centimes to rub together; and, given that the design budget doesn't extend beyond a few belle époque baubles and bentwood chairs, the concept, directed and devised by Annabel Arden and Rosalind Parker, looks suspiciously like an attempt to put together an evening's entertainment on the cheap.
Will Holmes, the "Chair" of a secret intelligence agency, has devised a technique to bring down aircraft before they can fly into buildings à la 9/11.
Another torture refugee told of a device they called "the German chair", so named, apparently, because it was devised by the Stasi.
Soon the frame became so wide that women found it difficult to negotiate a doorway or a sedan chair, so a collapsible folding panier was devised, made only of whalebone hoops connected together by tapes.
Now he's spending two hours in a makeup chair before each show for an application of Sinatra makeup devised by Kazu Tsuji, the Hollywood makeup artist who transformed Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
He has designed buildings, though few have yet been built, and he has devised several versions of the stackable mass-produced chairs that since the 1930s have signaled serious design intent.
In 1998, he was appointed, again by Blunkett, to chair the committee to devise a test of minimum competence in English language and British culture which immigrants should undergo before being given permanent residence.
Devised by the Italian designer Martino Gamper, it consists of new chairs made by Ercol, one of the surviving Buckinghamshire furniture manufacturers, and was commissioned by Wallpaper* magazine to celebrate the London Design Festival, which runs through Sunday.
