Objects of Desire review – surreal lobster phones and a seaside sleazorama

Design Museum, London
A lamp in the form of a life-size horse, a chair made of soft toys, a lips settee begging to be bonked on – this delightful orgy of bad taste highlights perverse surrealist design from Dalí to today

The Design Museum may need to keep an eye out for unsuitable acts on all the erotic furniture in its often delirious exhibition of perverse design. Perhaps they should put up a sign: “No sex on the sofas, please!”

Objects of Desire explores the influence of the surrealist movement on modern interiors and fashion. It is a celebration of design gone awry: instead of rational functionality, the creations here infiltrate the irrational into the practical, attacking reality in the name of dreams. A standard lamp in the form of a life-size horse, a comfy chair made of soft toys, and above all those lubricious, curvy, velvet and leather sofas, make this exhibition a delightful orgy of bad taste.

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