The Thousands

You can tell a lot from how people order their drawers. Cutlery, electrical appliances, tatty teatowels, napkins, take away menus, satchy bags of crack, your firstborn – what goes where? To you, standing in your kitchen, only one way seems reasonable. Big knives in the third drawer down? No way! That’s unspeakable! That’s just asking for a homicidal incident!

Imagine, then, if you opened your third drawer and helium balloons tumbled out! Or piñatas! Or whistles to beckon your pet cuckoo with! It’s the kind of crazy that would certainly warrant a cuckoo. Melbourne’s curio emporium Third Drawer Down embrace the mayhem; but until now that has been the kind of muted mayhem that comes from online shopping or trips to Fitzroy. According to them, they’re getting sick of the chilly Melbourne winter, and they need a vacation. So Crown Street has offered TDD a place to crash on its couch.

They’ll be packing most of their merch (think: towering wall of Giant Hamburgers), plus treating us to an exclusive Australian launch of three new international projects. As far as interstate guests go, that sure beats Aunty Mildred from Adelaide. Sorry Mi-mi. Now please excuse me while I go empty out my drawers in preparation.