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Tejo Remy: An Interview

With Deanna Sirlin

Tejo Remy is an interior and product designer in Utrecht, Holland, who has been commissioned by the High Museum in Atlanta to create one of his signature chests of drawers to join its permanent decorative arts collection.

Deanna Sirlin, The Art Section's Editor-in-Chief, interviewed Remy concerning his work and this new commission.

Deanna Sirlin: You made your first chest of drawers, You Can't Lay Down Your Memories, in 1991.

Will the fact that the work commissioned by the High Museum is to be made in the American South, where memory and the past are important parts of the culture, will change the work in any way? How is each work different or the same for you?

Tejo Remy: Use and memory are basic to the chest—you remember wher