DOMOTEX SURREALISM


ESCAPISM


Some of the most compelling of the recent collections have taken inspiration from the sort of surrealist art forms to which we turn for comfort in times of uncertainty. And we’ve had plenty of those


Photography | Joe Mortell | Charlotte Taylor | Dezeen.com Words |World Show Media staff


Surrealism has long played a role in defi ning home décor: pushing the boundaries of normality with the sort of bold and creative approach that often exaggerates and surprises, thanks to the design accents that hint at what has been called an unreal reality. Since the days of Andre Breton, designers, like artists, have experimented with the bemusement of illogical juxtapositions, distortions and dreamlike scenes which can often be as playful as they are restorative. Vincent Darré, a leading light among French devotees of the genre,


once placed the likes of Dali, Ernst and Man Ray among, in his words, his soulmates “from another era”. Indeed, the maximalism of his Paris home is testament to all that: from the Sputnik chandelier to the Daliesque lights with their lips, mechanical hands and eyeballs, to the Moorish architecture motif of the living room carpet. And if we cast our minds back to the 1930s, we’ll recall how the


MOBILES AND MODERNISM INSPIRE MACAROUNAS’ MAGIC


Sydney-based designer Michelle Macarounas cites a blend of mid-century Modernism and her Scandinavian roots as inspiration for her Tæpper rug range, produced in a collaborative project with Tsar Carpets. A key element was Alexander Calder’s mobile sculptures, something the Infi nite Design Studio used to apply a sense of the three- dimensional as they worked in subtle changes to the pile density and fi bres. The goal? To create rugs that “felt more like pieces of art and infuse an eclectic sensibility in any interior space”.


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British arts patron Edward James transformed his Lutyens–designed early 20th-century UK farmhouse family home in West Sussex into a memorable surrealist fantasia, complete with metallic purple façade, lobster-shaped telephones and Dali-designed sofas, inspired by the mouth of the actress Mae West. Around a century later, having negotiated the hardest of times, including a global pandemic, there are indications of a return emerging everywhere. The AD100 designer


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