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.
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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
“The Scream”) first began sketching designs for a set of silverware in 1948, creating a prototype in 1980 and eventually putting it into limited production by Danish design firm Georg Jensen from 2002 to 2003. Like Dalí, Griegst took inspiration from nature, creating a zigzag biomorphic shape for the handles of his sterling silver set, which he aptly named ‘Spira’ (Sprout) – to symbolise the growth and creation of life. “My father did it out of sheer rebellion he wanted to challenge the myth of Danish design as something cool and minimalist,” says his son, Noam, who took over the company after his father’s death and recently relaunched the line in collaboration with Georg Jensen in 2021. “Initially, we were told that no one was buying cutlery,” says Griegst. “I thought, I’m not going to listen to them people are craving something special. I wanted to do something that supported our heritage.”
More recently, a new generation of jewellers have breathed new life and art into these everyday objects. For London-born, French-raised Gala Colivet Dennison, who originally trained as a sculptor before moving on to abstract sculptural rings and necklaces, experimenting with these functional objects was a challenging but ultimately liberating experience. “I didn’t have to deal with the constraints that jewellery has in terms of scale and weight,” she explains. After experimenting with candlesticks and pillboxes, Dennison was recently commissioned by interior designer and design agency Jermaine Gallacher to create a set of sterling silver spoons for his
magazine Ton, currently on sale at Dover Street Market. The resulting spoons have a pleasingly impractical look, with their short, wide handles and long bowls. “The base of the large spoon was originally a pillbox, and the head of the small spoon was originally an earring,” says Dennison. "I love taking things apart and rebuilding them, finding the perfect balance, no matter the size."
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