For Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, food was a constant obsession in his personal and artistic life. “My enlightenment was born and spread through my intestines,” he once said. The dinner parties he and his wife Gala threw were famous for their extravagance and imagination: guests would dress up in fancy costumes and be served dishes such as a fish served in satin slippers or a tray of dancing frogs. While these dinners (and recipes for delicacies like Steamed and Poached Lark, Veal Cutlets Stuffed with Snails, Frog Pie, and Pine Cone Toffee) would be remembered in a cookbook he published in 1973, Les Dîners de Gala (reissued by Taschen in 2016), he also showed off his culinary leanings some 16 years earlier with a six-piece dinner set he released in 1957 that sold for $28,125 at auction in 2012. Inspired by foliage, the set included a three-pronged elephant fork, a snail knife, a leaf knife, two artichoke spoons, and a fourpronged fish fork—all in silver-plated with rubies and sapphires. Click here to buy this shirt: NCAA LSU Tigers 100th 1924-2024 Anniversary, It Never Gets Old Death Valley Signatures T-Shirts
Since then, Surrealism has been a source of inspiration for creators looking to put their own spin on silverware. The late Danish jeweler Arje Griegst, whose “baroque-punk vision” of jewellery combined Surrealism with Art Deco (such as a necklace inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting