“A chair can be used even to sit on, but only on one condition: that we sit uncomfortably.” So said the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, creator of this spectacular solid brass chair. Initially depicted in the foreground of his 1935 painting Woman with a Head of Roses (in such perfect three-dimensional detail that it was apparently surprisingly easy to render in real life) the three-legged throne boasts high-heeled legs and a curved, swan-evoking back; hence its name, the Leda chair. Its seat is wedge-shaped, its arms placed at different heights, and, should you share Dalí’s penchant for discomfort, replicas of the piece are available from BD Barcelona Design .
