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"You Can't Lay Down Your Memories" chest of drawers by Tejo Remy/Droog Design

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"You Can't Lay Down Your Memories" chest of drawers by Tejo Remy/Droog Design

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Material: Used drawers, maplewood, jute strap

Year: 1991

The Chest of Drawers 'You can’t lay down your memory' were created during an exploration of the workings of the memory.

In memory art and -rhetoric, methods have been developed to train the memory. By relating situations and things with places in the house, memory art makes memories easy to call up. The same applies to the Chest of Drawers; by composing used, old drawers in a chaotic arrangement, the objects you place in a drawer obtain a particular spot on the chest. The chest is a metaphor for the memory system.

The Chest of Drawers is a collection of picked up drawers that have been given a new enclosure. These are then piled up on each other and held together with a furniture moving strap. The Chest of Drawers is a part of three products, with the Ragchair and the Milkbottle lamp, which formulate the following idea: make your own world with what you encounter, as Robinson Crusoë created his own paradise on his island.

The Chest of Drawers is part of the first collection of Droog Design.

Order through Droog Design:  

2005
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY, commissioned from the artist through Droog Design

2005 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Barry Friedman Ltd.

Notes:
[1] According to Marc Benda of Barry Friedman Ltd., the chest was acquired directly from Droog Design, and Droog Design told the artist that the piece would be made for Barry Friedman [email from Marc Benda, August 31, 2005; certificate of origin from Droog Design, January 26, 2006, SLAM document files].

[2] Invoice from Barry Friedman Ltd., October 21, 2005 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 29, 2005.

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Artwork Details

Artist/Maker

Tejo Remy (Dutch, born 1960), designer and maker

Date

designed 1991, fabricated 2008

Medium

Maple, various preexisting drawers, jute furniture mover's strap, and metal

Accession #

2008.161

Dimensions

24 x 34 inches

Location

On View - Wieland Pavilion, Skyway, Gallery 419

Description

Tejo Remy’s concept for this chest is a functional and visual marker of spaces to hold and retain memories. By creating a new context for old, forgotten parts (the drawers), he recycles the works and the meaning found within and around them. In 2008, the High sent out a statewide call for submissions of drawers from any type of furniture to be included; the chosen entries were assembled on site by Remy based on the original design Remy first debuted with Droog in 1991. His design philosophy champions a more responsible, moral, and simplistic approach, as demonstrated with these repurposed drawers.

Credit

Purchase with funds from the Friends of the Decorative Arts