Chestnuts like Magritte's painting of hooded lovers kissing, an illustration that love is blind, and Dalí's lobster telephone are included, although what the telephone has to do with desire is not clear.

The exhibition includes a couch in the form of Mae West's lips; two of Dalí's famous, kitschy lobster telephones; and a monitor playing the dream sequence he designed for Alfred Hitchock's "Spellbound."

His lobster telephone and pouting lips made a rare appearance.

There has also been an exhibition on 'the interior landscape of surrealism: A glimpse into the homes of Edward James, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller' which included the famous lobster telephone and the Mae West Lip Sofa from West Dean House, which were collaborations between Edward James and Salvador Dalí.

A seafood restaurant in Orlando, Fla., had wrapped a little red New Beetle in a big red lobster, stealing an idea from Dali's famous 1936 lobster telephone.

Salvador Dali's lobster telephone became the most bizarre collectible of the year - and one the most expensive telephones ever auctioned.

Salvador Dali's melting watches and lobster telephones were intended as a call to social revolution, yet ended up eliciting smirks.