The surrealists felt that the unconscious mind could communicate through symbols in dreams, and often used such motifs in their works to demonstrate the link between the imaginative and the mundane. For the 2021 Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Dallas, Ken Fulk incorporated surrealist imagery—including a hand-embroidered astral wallcovering by de Gournay and collage-style artwork featuring fragmented body parts—as an homage to the movement. 

Courtesy of Holly Hunt

Sculptor Patricia Roach uses age-old lost-wax techniques to forge her anthropomorphic Asta platter for Holly Hunt.

Courtesy of Wildwood

Embellished with an evil-eye-like, natural agate gemstone, Wildwood’s Zulli lamp helps keep bad vibes at bay.