`Our western culture has gone ´aesthetic´. Everything has to be beautiful. In other words it has to have style. The beauty of the exterior suffers no dissonance gladly. Wrinkles are ironed out, muscles are broadened and spots washed away. Everything gleams and glistens.´
Ref. Renny Ramaker, Droog Design in Context
Many designers today are distancing themselves from simply creating beautiful forms and objects. Rather than being inspired by glossy design magazines and glossy materials, they take their inspiration from the anonomous, everyday, meaningless and the natural.
Tejo Remy´s ´Chest of Drawers´ partly represents a distancing against trendy design. Todays emphasis on the young and new, encourages us to recycle forms, materials and objects. I find it invaluable to base design on what is already there. The reasoning behind this work interests me because I too am interested at looking at reuse of everyday objects. I like the notion of using everyday objects in a variety of new ways, in new contexts, to create different outcomes. Although I am not solely concerned with the use of readymade items, I find it interesting to look at the benefits of secondary use in our ´throw-away´ society.
In the welter of new things we look for recognizability and familiarity.
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