So you know that feeling when you were a kid and your mom put you in a turtle-necked sweater? It was the most itchy and suffocating thing, and no matter how much you tried to stretch out that neck, it clenched right back down to its previous vice-like grip like magic.
That is a bit of how we are feeling at the moment in our studio and warehouse space. KIOSK is coming, which is just so damn fantastic, but since the expansion, our studio is packed to breaking point, and our little heads are just poking out from the boxes. That is why we’ve decided to have the most scrumptious and gargantuan Garage Sale all day Saturday!
It’s the most secret and fantastic projects we’ve done, plus everything else which is filling our shop and making us stuffy. Pillowcases, Sculptures, Tea Towels, Mugs, Books, Music Boxes, Chocolates, Soaps and much, much, much more. We can’t even tell you too much about it, we don’t want to ruin the excitement and surprises on the day!
It’s sure to be the most fantastic day, with Free Lemonade all afternoon, and prices being made up on the spot with Absolute Reckless Abandon.
And if you can’t make it to our Absolutely Huge Garage Sale this weekend, check on line after the weekend and see what we’ve cooked up for you out of state-ers.
Come, have some lemonade and help save our sanity.
Get ready Australians! The most super-utilitarian New York design store Kiosk will be making its debut with a permanent storefront at Third Drawer Down, Melbourne from November 4th.
KIOSK is a travel story depicted through objects, a collection of interesting things from around the world, simple everyday anonymous things that generally go unnoticed. It is a study of material culture, a shop, an effort to preserve unique and indigenous objects, an installation, and something different from the every day. Alisa Grifo and husband Marco Romeny create their collection of curiosities on bi-yearly trips, with their most recent collection heralding from Japan. Their travels result in an enticing collection of “traditional goods that have been developed over generations or anonymous design found in general stores, DIY’s and Kiosks: products designed not around one personality but the result of local aesthetic and needs.” KIOSK is an ever-changing exhibition celebrating beauty in the found object.
Clamber though the foam padded doorway at Third Drawer Down and you will find a collection of esoteric and chaotic objects from across the globe made by anonymous designers, ranging from handmade reindeer horn mushrooming knives from Sweden, Portuguese weather roosters to neon green plastic Citra Sippers from Florida. In essence, things so different and special you never knew you couldn’t live without them.
KIOSK currently has a selection of objects at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Postalco in Tokyo, SCP in London and Project no.8 in New York.
Third Drawer Down have collaborated again with the Tate to develop an exciting range of products for the Paul Gauguin Maker of Myth exhibition. This new collection of includes a superb market bag with hand stitched leather handles and feet, cushion with bobble trimming, both featuring a detail of Gauguin’s 1898 Faa Iheihe painting, tea for one set, ceramic tiles, mug, wooden stamp set, embroidered tea towel, metal tray, book bag and pin cushion that utilizes the scrap fabric from all products within the textile range.
(text from Tate website) Gauguin is one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists from the early 20th century. For the first time in the UK in over 50 years, Tate Modern presents an exhibition dedicated to this master French Post-Impressionist, featuring paintings and drawings from around the world. His sumptuous, colourful images of women in Tahiti and beautiful landscape images of Brittany in France are some of the most popular images in Modern art.
Gauguin was the ultimate global traveller, sailing the South Seas, and living in Peru, Martinique, and Paris among other places. This exhibition explores the role of the myths around the man – Gauguin as storyteller, painting himself as a Christ-like figure or even a demon in his own paintings, religious and mythical symbols in his work, and the manipulation of his own artistic identity. It features many of his iconic paintings, including those showing daily village life from the artist’s colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany, nude bathers and haystacks in the Breton landscape, and decorative works such as the carved wooden door panels around Gauguin’s hut in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.
Gauguin sought to escape European civilisation in the South Seas. Inspired by Tahiti’s tropical flora, fauna and island life, he immersed himself in its fast-disappearing local culture to invest his art with deeper meaning, ritual and myth.
Just in time for Spring Third Drawer Down and The Victorian Aids Council present The Free Condom Project. These little love boxes are the most collectable and useful things out there, with works by David Shrigley, Kill Pixie, James Galligar and Anne De Vries, they are the ultimate in date shiek.
The best part? they are absolutely, knee-spankingly FREE. Our Victorian-wide launch is a few weeks away, but are now available exclusively at our store in Melbourne. Ask us for a box when you order, and we will pop one in for free. Fall in love this spring, and let Third Drawer Down help.
As we cannot keep secrets here at Third Drawer Down we couldn’t wait until November 1st to show you the amazing candy striped merchandiser that holds all the beautiful condom packs.
These will be sent out to all participating Victorian retailers with there free condoms by artists David Shrigley, Anne De Vries, Kill Pixie and James Gallagher.
If you want your own box of free condoms in your store please email: condom@thirddrawerdown.com
If you want a free condom now we have a special stash here at Third Drawer Down.
Check out freecondomproject.com for more details on the project and all the latest updates.
We are absolutely chuffed to present New York’s coveted CONFETTISYSTEM shop show. Started in Brooklyn by Julie Ho and Nicholas Andersen, their handmade piñatas, garlands and party decorations, have caused both children and adults to wee in excitement, and have single handedly brought party decorations to a whole new level. CONFETTISYSTEM has graced the walls of Opening Ceremony, Bergdorf Goodman, Urban Outfitters, and Urban Bamboo, and have been bashed open at Karen-O’s birthday party. The shop show is open from 11-5, Tuesday through Saturday, or you can take home your own CONFETTISYSTEM either online or in shop.
My dad has a wierd obsession with leiderhosen. I’ve seen pictures of him wearing them in highschool, and to this day he swears they are the most comfortable item of clothing he has ever worn. Unable to find the leather embroidered garment in the US, he is seen daily in shorts with long tube socks and sandals, cutting the shape of the token Dad. He makes a mean chocolate chip cookie, loves parody songs by Wierd Al Yankovic is obsessed with chopped wood piles and handmade rock walls. So much in fact, that on family road trips we would often pull off the road to marvel at the craftsmanship of a perfectly cut and stacked pyramid of logs and listen to comments about the high heat and long lasting burning ability of different woods, and the importance of curing before burning. This kind of dependability is the reason dads are so ace. They deserve a day where we celebrate them for their interesting clothing choices, bad jokes and ridiculous hobbies, and let them be as embarrassing as they want to be.
This week we are celebrating dads, so send us your best dad joke and get a chance to win a special present for your pop. Make sure to include his address, and we will send it off directly to the lucky fellow in time for fathers day.
Also, if anyone knows where to find Authentic German Leiderhosen in a Men’s size 40, you could help me fulfill my dad’s greatest dream, and make my mom really mad.
love,
Kathryn Foster
Let’s face it, we are suckers for a party. We stick birthday candles in sandwiches, eat cake at every Tuesdays staff meeting, and i just may have a permanent Christmas tree at my house where I randomly gift wrap items from my house, set them beneath the tree and then open them with zeal and flourish…
After revealing this, it should be no surprise that we are throwing an all day party the day before we leave Sydney, Thursday August 12th. There will be wine and mineral water flowing all day, boxes of specific bright orange snackfoods opened and doled out, presents given at random, and most everything discounted too.
So blow out your turkey on rye, wish yourself a happy un-birthday and come hang out with us on Thursday August 12th, from 11:00-6:00
374 Crown Street, Surry Hills NSW
All these items are available at our Specific Merchandise store, and will be discounted all day Thursday for our Bash n' Sale.
The world’s best Museum store is at Melbourne Art Fair 2010 from the 4 – 8 August.
Third Drawer Down in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation presents Art Shop, an eccentric and witty collection of products by artists/designers and niche brands including chocolate editions, crayon rocks, bird calls, limited edition textiles and jigsaw puzzles that question the mainstream conditions under which art and culture are bought and sold.
Art Shop at Melbourne Art Fair 2010 is the launching point for Third Drawer Down’s new collaborations with renowned Australian artists Jon Campbell and Noel McKenna. Art Shop will be a major feature at Melbourne Art Fair 2010, with an entire curated, exhibition shop, located within the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.
Melbourne Art Fair is presented by Melbourne Art Foundation, a not for profit organisation established to support living artists and promote contemporary art. Melbourne Art Fair 2010 features paintings, sculpture, photography, installations and multimedia artworks from over 900 artists represented by over 80 leading contemporary galleries from Australia and beyond and attracts up to 30,000 visitors.
OPENING TIMES:
Private View
4 August – 7.00pm – 10.30pm
Public View
Thursday 5 August 11.00am – 7.00pm
Friday 6 August 11.00am – 8.00pm
Saturday 7 August 11.00am – 7.00pm
Sunday 8 August 11.00am – 5.00pm
LOCATION
Melbourne Art Fair 2010
Royal Exhibition Building
Carlton Gardens Melbourne Australia
Third Drawer Down have collaborated again with the 
