Third Drawer Down Studio is humbled to present a collection based on the fabric works of Louise Bourgeois. Fabric played an important role in Bourgeois's life. She grew up surrounded by the textiles of her parents tapestry restoration workshop, and from the age of twelve helped the business by drawing in the sections of the missing parts that were to be repaired.

A life-long hoarder of clothes and household items such as tablecloths, napkins and bed linen, from the mid-nineties Bourgeois cut up and re-stitched these, transforming her lived materials into art. Through sewing she attempted to effect psychological repair: "I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole."

Louise Bourgeois was a French-American artist who gained recognition later in her long career. Throughout her life, she created abstract sculptures, drawings, and prints charged with deep psychological meaning. She lived to the age of 98. Third Drawer Down first collaborated with Bourgeois in 2008 for her retrospective at the Tate Museum. Since then, we’ve maintained an ongoing partnership with her estate, The Easton Foundation, to produce a range of objects inspired by her work, available here.

Since its founding in 2003, Third Drawer Down Studio has collaborated with over 150 contemporary artists to create licensed, everyday objects designed to bring art into daily life.