Important Design
Important Design
Tejo Remy
Commode you can't lay down your memories
Auction Closed
December 17, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Tejo Remy
You can't lay down your memories chest of drawers
[Commode you can't lay down your memories ]
designed in 1991, our model in 2003
metal, wood, paper, plastic, paper and paint
Droog Design edition
Unique piece, executed for Marcel Wanders
[le modèle créé en 1991, notre exemplaire de 2003
érable, plastique, carton et tissu
Edition Droog Design
Pièce unique réalisée pour Marcel Wanders]
147 x 134 x 45 cm ; 57 ⅞ x 52 ¾ x 17 ¾ in.
Marcel Wanders private collection, The Netherlands
[Collection privée Marcel Wanders, Pays-Bas]
Eleanor H. Gustafson, The High Road, Modern Magazine, Spring 2012, p. 133
For a related example :
Gareth Williams, The Furniture Machine, Furniture since 1990, London, 2006, p. 32
Design contre design, Deux siècles de création, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 26, 2007 - January 6, 2008, pp. 308 and 309
Why, What, How, Collection Design in a Contemporary Market, London, 2010, p. 98
Anne Bony, Esprit meuble Design, l'évolution esthétique de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Paris, 2013, pp. 290 and 291
[Eleanor H. Gustafson, The High Road, Modern Magazine, printemps 2012, p. 133
Pour un modèle comparable:
Gareth Williams, The Furniture Machine, Furniture since 1990, Londres, 2006, p. 32
Design contre design, Deux siècles de création, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 26 septembre 2007 - 6 janvier 2008, pp. 308 et 309
Why, What, How, Collection Design in a Contemporary Market, Londres, 2010, p. 98
Anne Bony, Esprit meuble Design, l'évolution esthétique de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Paris, 2013, pp. 290 et 291]
In the 1990s, the designer Tejo Remy created a number of objects that have today become icons of the design. Among others - a chest of drawers made from found boxes titled 'You can't lay down your memory'. This piece was created at the peak of the popularity of the secondary use of objects and materials. It was exhibited in 1993 at the Milan Furniture Salon when the founders of the Droog Design group, Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers, presented a selection of works by Dutch designers. Their minimalist approach to design created a stormy reaction among their critics.
The debut of Droog Design was like a manifesto. After the design of the 1980s, characterised by an abundance of detail, minimalism turned to a new value system that was based on economics and simplicity and the perceived poverty of the means used was elevated to an aesthetic philosophy.
Remy's 'You cannot lay down your memory' is more than the recycling of old boxes. Some details require that the user interact with the constituent parts which in essence make each object a unique exercise in individual customisation.
This lot is sold with a certificate from Tejo Remy