2009 will be the the year of Dalí. BD Barcelona are commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the death of this brilliant universal artist and wishes to join the homage producing a special and limited edition of his fantastic furniture collection. During the ‘thirties in Paris, Salvador Dalí surrounded himself with a circle of friends involved in the application of art to varied disciplines, above and beyond the study of pure pictorial art. Jean-Michel Frank, a furniture maker and decorator of recognized prestige in the Paris of those years, was on very good terms with Dalí and together they worked on several ideas. The Bracelli lamp is a classic design after Jean-Michel’s manner of designing and working, adopted by Dalí for his house at Port Lligat. Amongst Dalí ’s specific furnishing projects, and constituting another for his curriculum vitae as a designer, may be counted the garden furnishings for his Port Lligat house, the complete architecture of the Night Club (garotte-shaped) for the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco (1957) and another project for a bar in California in the ‘forties. As shown by the small selection now produced and included in this catalogue, Dalí ’s work was not restrictes to the traditional furnishing elements, but included tap fittings, handles, door-pulls, printed fabrics and objets of indeterminate use. In the 1990s a group of experts, led by Oscar Tusquets, set themselves the task of turning the furniture Dalí had drawn for Jean-Michel Frank into reality. Amongst these items were the Leda chair and low table, taken from the painting “Femme à la tête rose” (1935). The prototypes were made by the sculptor Joaquim Camps and Bd Ediciones de Diseño organised production and exclusive world marketing. One of the problems involved in producing Salvador Dalí’s designs was that of the choice of materials, which the artist never specified. A balance had to be found between the painter’s tastes and the practicalities of manufacture.