At a Paris cafe, in a conversation between Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar admiring Oppenheim's fur-covered bracelet, Picasso remarked that one could cover anything with fur, to which she replied, "Even this cup and saucer." Soon after, when asked by André Breton, Surrealism's leader, to participate in the first Surrealist exhibition dedicated to objects, Oppenheim bought a teacup, saucer, and spoon covered with the fur of a Chinese gazelle. In so doing, she transformed genteel items into sensuous, sexually punning tableware.
The romanian artist still show us architectural shapes in his different designs, flowing from sophistication to sensual creations and hand-crafted avant-garde structures.