[MUSEUM] OBJECTS OF DESIRE

(THE DESIGN MUSEUM)

SURREALISM & DESIGN (1924-today)

Surrealism recognizes that dreams and desires are our constant companions. Free design from rationality and utilitarianism. Moving into hiding places encourages designers to challenge and break out of everyday routines.

A literary movement that began with symbolist poetry and Dada art. The French poet Andre Breton and his Allies, dating back to the mid-1920s, extended surrealist principles to paintings and then to objects. Over the next decade, it spread to architecture, interior design, furniture, fashion and film.

Surrealism was a reaction to the First World War and the pandemic flu. It encourages designers to change not only the physical world, but also the inner world.

Footprint carpet design——EDWARD JAMES