Alessandro Mendini1, Alfredo Häberli3, Álvaro Siza1, Antoine et Manuel1, Antoni Gaudí17, Arquitectura-G1, Cristian Zuzunaga1, Doshi Levien1, Eduard Samsó1, Ettore Sottsass3, Eugeni Quitllet2, Färg & Blanche1, Isabel Gamero1, Jaime Hayon29, Jordi Badia1, Jordi Pérez1, Josep Maria Jujol1, Klas Ernflo5, Konstantin Grcic7, Lluís Clotet5, Muller Van Severen7, Oscar Tusquets20, Otto Canalda2, Pepe Cortés6, Ramón Úbeda1, Ronan Bouroullec9, Sabine Marcelis1, Salvador Dalí11, Serban Ionescu4, Stephen Burks2, Willo Perron1, Xavier Mañosa1
Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, in 1904. He began drawing when he was 12 and was formally educated in fine arts at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. He experimented with Cubism, was attracted to Dada and Futurism, and was influenced by the great masters of the Renaissance. In 1929, he joined the Surrealist movement and became its most successful proponent.
His work shocked and excited society. Diverse things were merged into an explicit rawness, one with unusual meanings that, when combined, made irreality concrete.
In the Paris of the 1930s, Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends working in varied disciplines beyond the study of purely pictorial art. He collaborated with designers like JeanMichel Frank to move his imagery into reality. His notebooks were filled with expressive and strange designs. They had the same obsessive and paralysing exactness of detail that is found in his paintings and were intended to be made to surround him.
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