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When Salvador Dalí exhibited his lobster telephone at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938, the Spanish artist replaced the handset with a real crustacean.
Over the five-and-a-half-week run of the International Exhibition of Surrealism, the creature decayed, emitting a foul smell. Enjoy our more fragrant selections…
Stand out at the pool or on the beach with a bright red PVC lobster lilo, sold with repair patch — just in case. Buy the Sunnylife Luxe Lie-On Float for £44.99.
Rosanna Lonsdale lamp with a base of handblown glass and a lobster painted from the inside is available with stretched or pleated shade in cream or ivory, £460, or you can buy the base on its own at £365.
Oven gloves in 100 per cent cotton by London design duo Juliet Thornback and Delia Peel are lobster screen-printed “with a nod to surrealist art”. Priced £25, with matching tea towel at £12, from Thornback & Peel.
Dutch store group Hema now has shops at Euston, Victoria, Tottenham Court Road and Clapham Junction. This jaunty little USB stick with a key chain and 8GB storage is just 8cm long. Using its 2.0 flash drive, you can save files and/or exchange files between PCs, notebooks and Macs. Ideal for storing, copying and moving data, games, images and music. It’s £10.
This hand-painted limited-edition wooden lobster chair by east London Neo-Pop surrealist artist Philip Colbert costs £950.
Available from Colbert Studio, 124 Columbia Road, E1.
Napkins designed by British illustrator and artist Jessica Russell Flint cost £36 a pair.
Blue lobster wall art in felt batik by Berkshire-based ex-fashion designer Fiona Walker is £49.
