Furnishing and animating its surroundings, The Cajones Lamp expresses Dalí’s art with a unique, creative simplicity.
The design of the Cajones Lamp was drawn by Dalí in 1937 for Jean Michel Frank. Oscar Tusquets and Robert Descharnes produced a hand-carved piece with little drawers at the lamp’s base. Reminiscent of his sculpture, Venus de Milo with Drawers (1936), the lamp features peculiar drawer fittings that move upwards and decrease in size before meeting the link of crutches connecting the base and lamp fitting. The handmade lampshade is available in beige linen. Its draped body and folds create an intimate light that illuminates its surroundings and the carved limewood structure. The lamp is also available in a limited edition black patina.
Dalí was obsessed with the crutch, and it has frequently appeared in his paintings such as The Dream (1937), and The Burning Giraffe (1937). He found it to be "the significance of life and death...a support for inadequacy."
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