London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design

Design Museum show to look at how movement revolutionised arts from furniture to fashion

Surrealism often brings to mind the melted clocks of Salvador Dali or Rene Magritte's image of a pipe, placed aptly above the words this is not a pipe".

However, despite the success of displays at top galleries in New York and London, the movement's heydays were between the 1920s and the 1960s.