Mae West Lips Sofa

The light red, 110 cm × 183 cm × 81.5 cm (43 in × 72 in × 32 in) sized seating furniture made of polyurethane foam coated with a red polidur coating was shaped after the lips of actress Mae West, whom Dalí apparently found fascinating.

[1] Dalí never intended for the sofa to serve a functional use.

He also claimed that he partly based the design of the sofa[citation needed] on a pile of rocks near Cadaqués and Portlligat, where he stayed for many years with his wife, Gala Éluard Dalí.

Edward James, a rich British patron of the Surrealists, originally commissioned the piece from Dalí.

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On display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam , 2017