• • Design Moment: Mae West lips sofa, 1938 • •
• • Bernice Harrison wrote: Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí’s 1904-1989 drawing Mae West’s Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment (1934-35) featured a luscious looking, red, lip-shaped sofa. In 1938 his British patron, the eccentric and very wealthy collector Edward James suggested the idea of making actual sofas based on the picture and five were made at the time including a pair made for James’s country home, Monkton House designed by Edwin Lutyens.
• • Bernice Harrison wrote: Covered in red fabric with a black wool fringe, his Mae West sofa has recently been acquired by the V and A Museum in London who call it both “an iconic piece of 20th-century design and a joyous expression of Surrealism.” James, who was also a poet, described the fringe as intended “to look like the embroidery upon the epaulettes of a picador or the breeches and hat of a toreador.” Objects designed by Dalí have huge drawing power for museums – for its Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design in 2007 at the V and A, a pink satin version of the Mae West lips sofa was a star attraction.
• • Bernice Harrison wrote: While the sofa looks deeply comfortable, Dalí said one of his inspirations for it was a group of particularly uncomfortable rocks near his home in Cadaques in Spain.
• • Source: The Irish Times; published on Saturday, 4 August 2018.
• • On Monday, 9 May 2005 in Playbill • •
• • On Monday, 9 May 2005, Broadway buffs learned that Diamond Lil's theatre was to be renamed. Mae West's play "Diamond Lil" was a huge hit for the Royale in 1928. However, on May 9th in New York City, the Plymouth and the Royale were re-dedicated as the Schoenfeld and Jacobs Theatres.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Love means one thing to one's parents and something else to another. lt's a more or less powerful emotion beyond ordinary human control. Try it yourself sometime and you'll get what I mean."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Los Angeles daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Usually supportive of Mae, Sidney Skolsky vented his frustrations in The L.A. Times on Sunday, 9 May 1937. Skolsky wrote about the perfidiousness of Mae's denials when "she insisted that she was leveling with the press when she told them she had never been married to Frank Wallace." He said he did not trust her any longer.
• • Source: The L.A. Times; published on Sunday, 9 May 1937
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not
long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 4,200 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4209th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.
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