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Chair: The art of living well
Pull up a chair and check out this Dali.
By JUDY STARK
Published July 16, 2005
It's a little too elaborate and expensive to be called a souvenir, but it certainly will remind you of your trip to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. The Dali thinks it is the first museum in the United States to offer a chair imprinted with a work of art, in this case Dali's Hallucinogenic Toreador.
The chair is made in Europe of Altuglass, a transparent, high-grade acrylic similar to Plexiglas. Dare Deco of Tampa is the importer and distributor. The gift shop at the Dali, at 1000 Third St. S, expects a chair to arrive from France by the end of the month. Or visit the museum's Web site, www.salvadordalimuseum.org for a look.
The chair is intended to be used, museum spokeswoman Dianne Birmingham said: "It's very durable and functional."
The price is $2,995 each, and delivery takes 9 to 11 weeks, Birmingham said. That price is well out of the range of most souvenir shoppers, but the museum is optimistic about sales, given the success of a line of lithographs priced from $1,200 to $2,500. That suggests, Birmingham says, that "there is an art audience" out there for items in this price range.
Museums in Europe offer chairs from Dare Deco with Picasso images. If this one does well, the Dali will consider expanding the line.
[Last modified July 15, 2005, 09:12:20]
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