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You’re strolling through downtown’s Western Avenue furniture district when you spot a life-size black horse wearing what appears to be an oddly shaped headdress. Take a closer look and you see it’s a floor lamp.
Surrealism is a design style that—if you pay close attention—you’re bound to see more often. What is showing up in local stores and showrooms can loosely be considered neosurrealism—a modern revival of the 20th-century movement that created unexpected juxtapositions, ironically integrated life and dreams and expressed a disinterested play of thought.

In the furnishings world of contemporary times, neosurrealism is far less political than its predecessor, yet it has profound implications for anyone who believes art and home décor can be synonymous. Whether extreme or subtle, whimsical or downright unusual, each piece has its own beautiful story to tell—if you look closely enough.

Pearly Lights Toothpaste tubes make for clean design when used in Ingo Maurer’s TU-BE light. Available through Inform Interiors, 1220 Western Ave.; (206) 622-1608.	High Horse This life-sized Horse Lamp by Moooi wins the blue ribbon for style. $5,130 at Inform Interiors
Papered Over Arts and crafts become form and function with Moooi’s Paper Cupboard, made entirely out of papier-mâché. $4,465 at Inform Interiors.	Still Life Make your own masterpieces with this Fruit Bowl by Thorsten Van Elten (apples not included). $80 at Inform Interiors.
New Flame  The frame of Moooi’s Smoke Armchair has an unexpectedly charred finish. $4,580 at Inform Interiors.	Outside In Blow Lamp by Studio Italia. $1360 available through Lightform Inc., 905 Western Ave; (206) 382-9667 or lightform.ca