Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen

Tejo Remy works as a product, interior and public designer working together with Rene Veenhuizen in Utrecht, the Neatherlands. Tejo graduated from the school of Art in Utrecht. Remy incorporates existing information, circumstances, or found goods into a new situations, often bringing  in more social contact or telling the story of a particular place. He transforms the familiar of the remains. He with Droog since its inception with the 1991 classics Chest of Drawers, Rag chair and Milk bottle lamps. He reached international acclaim, his commissioners and exhibitions including Museum of Art and Design New York, Bartow-Dell Mansion Museum in New York, MoMA in New York, The Netherlands Ministry of Housing, ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Museum Boymans   Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

The Rag chair is layered from the contents of 15 bags of rags. When you buy one of these it will come home finished but you can add more to it, first thing you are recycling and second it becomes unique and treasure-chest of memories. - 1991 Materials used Rags and metal strips. 

These Chest of drawers are one of the Droog classic - Tejo Remy collected founded drawers and gave them new enclosures and builded them into a chest. His pioneering vision was to make one´s own paradise with one encounters, as Robinson Crusoe did on his island. 

Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen uses simple materials in strikingly original ways. They prefer to do hands on experimentation and avoid designing with computer assistance. In there large room light-filled studio just outside the historical core of Utrecht, they bond, fuse, glued and manipulated fabric, glass, wood, cement and other materials, creating, testing and fabricating new designs and Ideas.

They love to use a cheap material, or used materials, and give them a new value. They experimented with soft design becomes hard , light becomes heavy, slick and colourful becomes matte and concrete grey.

Concrete Chair by Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen 

Accidental carpet by Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen 

Bamboo chair by Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen

This designer was inspired from Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen Bomboo chair

At this time the world started to encourage people not to waste things and have more environmental friendly house hold goods, cars, houses with big windows for natural light extra.

Design was also becoming more user friendly/ergonomic. At these time in the mid of the 20th century even electric cars were being introduced for a good climate but they were soon removed because the electric car was going to kill the oil companies. Instead they took care of it because they started to scraping them. 

General Motors EV1

Telsa model S - electric car 2012

Many other car designers companies are designing electric cars because the are more environmental friendly.

They even started to encourage people to recycle there clothes by putting them into cloth recycling bins, so they would be chosen and the good ones will go to 3 world countries and the other will be recycled.

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