Contemporary Design 
11 January 2024
Contemporary Design 
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Tejo Remy

Rag chair

Droog
The Netherlands, c. 1991
textiles, wood, steel 31½ h × 24 w × 35 d in (80 × 61 × 89 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,780
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literature: Droog Design: Spirit of the Nineties, Bakker and Ramakers, pg. 36 Less + More: Droog Design in Context, Ramakers, ppg. 25, 27 Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design, Taylor, pg. 25

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Rags to Riches

Tejo Remy’s Ingenious Seating

Pulling together themes of memory and over-consumption, Tejo Remy’s critically acclaimed designs are boldly conceptual objects that collide and transform past and present. Remy’s Rag Chair was one of the four designs he presented in 1991 when he graduated from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. Remy has collaborated with the Netherlands-based design studio Droog since its inception in 1993, and was included in their first design exhibition at Milan Furniture Fair in 1993. As MoMA notes, “Droog Design’s first appearance had the strength of a manifesto. In the hangover after the exuberance and excess of the 1980s, designers all over the world turned to a new value system based on economy, simplicity, and responsibility. Many of their objects celebrated ingenuity and poverty of means and elevated them to an aesthetic philosophy; idealism and moralism were the politically correct attitudes of the day.”

I do not see my design as nostalgic but more as an expression of the idea of creating your own paradise using what is available.

Tejo Remy

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