Objects of Desire. Surreal­ism and Design, 1924 – Today

Surreal­ism expan­ded our real­ity by draw­ing on myths, dreams, and the subcon­scious as sources of artistic inspir­a­tion.

Objects of Desire. Surreal­ism and Design, 1924 – Today docu­ments this fascin­at­ing dialogue. The book includes numer­ous essays and a wide selec­tion of images that trace this dialogue by juxta­pos­ing repres­ent­at­ive works of art and design objects. The artists and design­ers featured include Gae Aulenti, BLESS, Achille Castigli­oni, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duch­amp, Front, Iris van Herpen, Fred­er­ick Kiesler, René Magritte, Carlo Mollino, Meret Oppen­heim, and many others. The book is comple­men­ted by histor­ical quota­tions and short state­ments by contem­por­ary design­ers. This in-depth exam­in­a­tion high­lights one thing: form does not always follow func­tion – it can also follow our obses­sions, fantas­ies, and hidden desires.