dali rooms

'I try to create fantastic things, magical things, things like in a dream', wrote Salvador Dali in 1940. 'We can make the fantastic real, and then it is more real than that which actually exists.' Although architectural ideas and fantasies can have an existence on paper, it is both the glory and the drawback of architecture that it has to be real, to exist in three dimensions as a masonry construction that actually stands up. Yet although it might therefore seem a contradiction in terms, there certainly was a Surrealist architecture and, even more important, a Surrealist interior. There was, for instance, the Parisian apartment designed by Le Corbusier for Carlos de Beistegui, where the roof garden had a rococo chimneypiece set into the parapet wall above which was a mirror open to the sky.

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