Key facts

Product:
You Can't Lay Down Your Memories
Manufacturer:
Phillips
Architonic ID:
4104175
Launched:
1991
Country:
United States
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

A member of the Dutch conceptual design collective known as Droog, Remy recycled drawers from both antique and recent dressers, binding them together with a moving man's belt. Fraught with the pathos of our transient lives, but also fluid, practical and adaptable to different spaces, each example in the edition is unique.

Manufactured by Droog Design in an edition of sixteen
Maple, recycled wood, plastic, metal, and cardboard drawers, cotton belt, drawer cases stenciled "Droog Design," "No 016," and "Atelier Scheffling & Borsboom/Den Haag"
approximately 51 1/2 x 55 x 33 in. (130.8 x 139.7 x 83.8 cm)

Literature:
Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker, eds., Droog Design: Spirit of the Nineties, Rotterdam, 1998, p. 38
David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy, Design for Living, Paris, 2000, p. 210
Droog & Dutch Design, exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2000, p. 110