#gold-painted

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Salvador Dalí and Edward James, “Champagne Standard Lamp,”

Commissioned from Green & Abbott in 1938,   

Each lamp is made from 10 oversized brass champagne coupes stacked above one another, with a base “in the form of a Victorian papier-máché tray” covered in decorative gold ivy tendrils, berries, and leaves

Gold-painted and Lacquered Brass, Height: 63 in. (160 cm.)

Image courtesy V&A