Dali / Femme à la tête rose

Design: Salvador Dalí  / Year: 1935-1937  /   Available: matisse.co.nz

During the ‘thirties in Paris, Salvador Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends involved in the application of art to varied disciplines, above and beyond the study of pure pictorial art. Jean-Michel Frank, a furniture maker and decorator of prestige in the Paris of those years, was on very good terms with Dalí and together they worked on several ideas. In the 1990s a group of experts, led by oscar tusquets, set themselves the task of turning the furniture Dalí had drawn for Jean-Michel Frank into reality. Amongst these items were the Leda chair and low table, taken from the painting Femme à la tête rose (1935). The prototypes were made by the sculptor Joaquim Camps and Bd Barcelona design organised the production. The Leda Chair is available now from matisse.co.nz