Designed as a critique of consumerism, the drawers chest rejects the idea of standardized perfection in favor of accumulation, reuse, and recycling.

Chest of Drawers ‘You Can’t Lay Down Your Memory’ (1991) by Tejo Remy stands as a creative rebellion against perfect furniture.

Assembled from found drawers and bound with a simple jute strap, it turns domestic storage into a stacked archive of lives previously lived.

Each drawer differs in size, color, and age. Carries scars of use that no factory could convincingly imitate. Together, they form a structure.

Scratches and mismatched handles are not flaws but evidence. Chest of Drawers becomes a container not just for belongings, but for memory itself.

These drawers once belonged somewhere else, to someone else, and now coexist in a new arrangement without erasing their past.

By reusing found drawers, design shifts from production toward curation. The act of selection turns the designer into an editor of existing material.

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