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Property of a New York Collector

Tejo Remy

"You Can't Lay Down Your Memories" Chest of Drawers

Auction Closed

December 8, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a New York Collector

Tejo Remy

"You Can't Lay Down Your Memories" Chest of Drawers


circa 1991

from an edition of 200

produced by Droog Design, Netherlands

maple, recycled wood, plastic, metal, cardboard, ratchet strap

53 x 49 x 24 in. (134.6 x 124.5 x 61 cm) as pictured

Moss, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1991
Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker, eds., Droog Design: Spirit of the Nineties, Rotterdam, 1998, pp. 38 and 59 (for a related example)
David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy, Design For Living: Furniture and Lighting, 1950-2000, Paris, 2000, pp. 110-111 (for a related example)
Bart Lootsma, Super Dutch: New Architecture in the Netherlands, New York, 2000, p. 18 (for a related example)
Paola Antonelli, Objects of Design from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, p. 276 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art)
Anneke Moors, ed., Simply Droog: 10 + 3 years of creating innovation and discussion, Amsterdam, 2006, pp. 27, 167, 171-172, 220, 292 and 296
Gareth Williams, The Furniture Machine: Furniture since 1990, London, 2006, p. 32
Damon Taylor, "Laying Down Memories: The Cultural Mobility of Tejo Remy's Chest of Drawers," Journal of Design History, vol. 29, no. 3, 2015, pp. 245-257

The present lot is an early example from the artist's celebrated series.