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Dalilips by BD DesignThe precedent for the furniture designed by Salvador Dalí, for which Bd Ediciones de Diseño has the exclusive world marketing rights, is the famous sofa in the shape of a mouth which the artist created together with oscar tusquets in 1972 for the Mae West room at the Dalí Museum in Figueres.
More than thirty years had to pass before it became possible to put this sensual design into industrial production.
It is nothing more than a technologically innovative version of that model
which has now been renamed, dalilips and presented to the public.
The mouth as an aesthetic shape is a constantly recurring theme in dalí’s pictorial work.
In 1936 he painted the picture in which Mae West’s face is transformed into a room and in which the sofa lips, later produced by his friend jean-michel frank, were first seen.
During the 1970s tusquets worked with Dalí on the three-dimensional construction of that portrait with the aim of achieving a greater realism in the shape of the lips, imitating the small wrinkles of the skin and reproducing the colour and characteristic shine produced by saliva.
The splendid results encouraged them to plan the production of 300 numbered copies to be produced by the Bd company which had just been founded.
They called the lips Salivasofá and it was presented to
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