Salvador Dali, furniture designer

*It's slightly embarrassing to admit this, but some of this surreal Dali material from 60 years ago looks quite digital, blobjecty, peppy and up-to-date. It would pass in a hotel lobby without a second glance.

http://www.bdbarcelona.com/en/designers/salvador_dali.php

*Maybe it's time for a lobster cellphone. More likely, one already exists.

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*As the maestro used to say: "Telephone frappe', mint-coloured telephone, aphrodisiac telephone, lobster telephone, telephone sheathed in sable for the boudoirs of sirens with fingernails protected with ermine, Edgar Allan Poe telephones with a dead rat concealed within… telephones on the leash which would walk about, screwed to the back of a living turtle … telephones … telephones … telephones.”