Meret Oppenheim, Table with Bird’s Legs, 1939.
I. - HABITATION. House: 1. Houses in sky and earth. Emotional decoration. - 2. Expression of the facade; meaning of the terraces. - 3. Exterior of the house, that is to say feathers. - 4. Plan of the habitations, mirror to recognize oneself. - 5. Locks, professional secret. Furniture: 6. Living chairs, hangings of caresses, beds of captive birds. - 7. Different kinds of chairs, their decoration bloody. - 8. Chairs with animal feet. - 9. Negresse chairs. - 10. Armchairs. - 11. Boxing armchairs. - 12. Folding and water stools. - 13. Deaf and dumb beds. - 14. Sleepiness beds with windbag dreams. Tables: 15. Their shape, ornament, material, significant. - 16. Moral tables. - 17. Cinema-tables with suggestive views. - 18. Radiant tables for love. Gardens: 19. General description. - 20. Water features. - 21. Human trees touching the strollers. - 22. Boxtrees in iron wire. - 23. Caustic plants. - 24. Electrifying plants. - 25. Talking plants. - 26. Benches with springs. - 27. Kiosks of hair.
Louis Aragon, Projet de réforme des habitations, 1920, quoted in Ghislaine Wood (ed.), Surreal Things.
July 26, 2007 at 7:21 am
Cinema-tables with suggestive views. Yes, that’s the one I choose today. That, and maybe a sleepiness bed with windbag dreams for later on.
And don’t try to tell me you can’t find these in stores. Everyone knows the world is increasingly surreal, I read it in the news just the other day.
July 27, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I’d like a garden with caustic, electrifying and talking plants, though I suppose weeding would be out of the question…