Designers Eduardo and Marcelo Avanzatti have created a collection of surrealist oak furniture. Each piece, while retaining a glossy stained oak finish, seems to bend with in space. They are said to refer to the work of Dali, whose paintings famously involve common objects which appear to be "melting in the sun". While I have thus far made an effort to avoid including projects in this collection which feature deformed primitives solely for surrealism's sake; that is, to suspend reality and free the mind for speculative purposes, these pieces are still potentially functional designed objects. Presumably, enough care has been put into the design of these pieces to ensure that they still open and close, and can contain things.
These pieces are clear. They are not attempting to deceive. They do contradict one's expectations of oak as a material, but through meticulous wood craft, the oak bends to the designers' will. These pieces, when in use, likely sit a space which is not surreal. They are irregular objects in an otherwise regular domestic setting.
Source: Decoration-Decoration Blog
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