LEDA SCULPTURAL CHAIR BY SALVADOR DALÍ 1935

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LEDA SCULPTURAL CHAIR
BY SALVADOR DALÍ 1935

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VARNISHED AND POLISHED CAST BRASS

IN H 36.2 W 23.6 D 18.5 SH 19
CM H 92 W 60 D 47 SH 48.5

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The LEDA Sculptural chair translates the dense, sinuous lines of Dalí’s Surrealist universe into a fully realized sculptural seat. Executed in polished brass, the chair envelops the sitter within a continuous, curving form that is at once protective and expressive

The design is directly inspired by Dalí’s painting Woman with a Head of Roses (1935), in which the female figure becomes a site of metamorphosis and symbolic tension. In LEDA, this imagery is brought into the three-dimensional world: a brass body shapes the seat, while an elongated arm curves around to form the backrest, terminating in a sculpted hand that clasps the armrest. The figure rests on three slender legs that taper downward into gleaming high heels, reinforcing the anthropomorphic presence of the piece

Both functional and theatrical, the armchair reproduces the psychological intensity and formal fluidity of Dalí’s work. Its expressive curves echo the artist’s fascination with the human body as architecture, transforming a place of rest into an object of visual and conceptual charge

The LEDA Armchair is also available in a limited-edition black patina, presented without varnish, offering a darker, more restrained interpretation of the original brass finish

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BIOGRAPHY

Salvador Dalí

Born Figueres, Spain, 1904

A Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, and designer, Dalí was the most important figure of the Surrealist moment and among the most prolific artists of the twentieth century. He developed a singular visual language that fused hyper-precise realism with dream logic, drawing on psychoanalysis, symbolism, and obsessional imagery to explore time, desire, and the subconscious. The power and originality of his work is just as immediate and impressive today

While Dalí is best known for his paintings, his practice extended far beyond the canvas. He was deeply engaged with design and the applied arts, collaborating on furniture, interiors, jewelry, fashion, stage sets, and commercial objects. In 1930s Paris, Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends working in varied disciplines to move beyond the study of pictorial art. He collaborated with designers like Jean-Michel Frank to transform his imagery into three dimensional forms. Iconic works and his surreal interiors, some realized and others only conceived, reimagined everyday objects as psychologically charged forms infused with his signature glamour, wit, and existential humor , collapsing the boundary between art and design

In the 1990s, a team of experts led by architect and designer Oscar Tusquets brought Dalí’s sketches and designs to life. Working with Tusquets, a longtime friend of Dalí, the design firm BD Barcelona entered into a formal collaboration with the Gala–Salvador Dalí Foundation to act as the authorized editor, manufacturer, and steward of his design works, which it retains today

In discussing the process of creating editions of Dalí’s unrealized and unique works, Tusquets explained, “Dalí filled entire notebooks with sketches for various furniture designs he would have like to see in the cinema, used as advertising props or have in his own house. These were strange objects, high in symbolic content and with refined forms, which he would have enjoyed having around him. Salvador and I discussed the possibility of producing some of those Surrealist designs, which, for various reasons, he had been unable to make. From the hundreds of drawings in the archives of his foundation, BD began the production of a series of the most viable items of Dalí’s furniture

Rather than treating Dalí’s concepts, drawings, and prototypes as historical curiosities, BD Barcelona approaches them as functional design works, translating Dalí’s conceptual and sculptural ideas into collectible objects suitable for contemporary interiors. BD Barcelona has played a key role in preserving, contextualizing, and disseminating Dalí’s design legacy internationally, presenting his furniture in museums, galleries, and design fairs as part of the canon of 20th-century design history

STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN

Biography

Salvador Dalí

Born Figueres, Spain, 1904

A Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, and designer, Dalí was the most important figure of the Surrealist moment and among the most prolific artists of the twentieth century. He developed a singular visual language that fused hyper-precise realism with dream logic, drawing on psychoanalysis, symbolism, and obsessional imagery to explore time, desire, and the subconscious. The power and originality of his work is just as immediate and impressive today

While Dalí is best known for his paintings, his practice extended far beyond the canvas. He was deeply engaged with design and the applied arts, collaborating on furniture, interiors, jewelry, fashion, stage sets, and commercial objects. In 1930s Paris, Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends working in varied disciplines to move beyond the study of pictorial art. He collaborated with designers like Jean-Michel Frank to transform his imagery into three dimensional forms. Iconic works and his surreal interiors, some realized and others only conceived, reimagined everyday objects as psychologically charged forms infused with his signature glamour, wit, and existential humor , collapsing the boundary between art and design

In the 1990s, a team of experts led by architect and designer Oscar Tusquets brought Dalí’s sketches and designs to life. Working with Tusquets, a longtime friend of Dalí, the design firm BD Barcelona entered into a formal collaboration with the Gala–Salvador Dalí Foundation to act as the authorized editor, manufacturer, and steward of his design works, which it retains today

In discussing the process of creating editions of Dalí’s unrealized and unique works, Tusquets explained, “Dalí filled entire notebooks with sketches for various furniture designs he would have like to see in the cinema, used as advertising props or have in his own house. These were strange objects, high in symbolic content and with refined forms, which he would have enjoyed having around him. Salvador and I discussed the possibility of producing some of those Surrealist designs, which, for various reasons, he had been unable to make. From the hundreds of drawings in the archives of his foundation, BD began the production of a series of the most viable items of Dalí’s furniture

Rather than treating Dalí’s concepts, drawings, and prototypes as historical curiosities, BD Barcelona approaches them as functional design works, translating Dalí’s conceptual and sculptural ideas into collectible objects suitable for contemporary interiors. BD Barcelona has played a key role in preserving, contextualizing, and disseminating Dalí’s design legacy internationally, presenting his furniture in museums, galleries, and design fairs as part of the canon of 20th-century design history

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