Salvador Dali’s surrealistic paintings of limp watches, strange landscapes and distorted figures were copied into everyday items like jigsaw puzzles, prints, dinnerware, jewelry and tee shirts. In 1936, he designed a phone with the familiar Bakelite base and dial but with a plaster lobster perched where the ear and mouth piece should be. Eleven of the phones were made, four red and seven white. A white phone sold at Christie’s London on December 15, 2016, for $1,058,785, well over the $190,000-300,000 estimate. Another Dali item in the sale was a sofa in the shape of Mae West’s lips, one of a pair made for a dining room in 1938. The red sofa was trimmed with green applique and black fringe. It sold for $908,425.