If you want to make your interior original or add a little touch of madness in a classic setting, the Bocca sofa is made for you.

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A Bocca sofa is made with polyurethane foam. Generally, it is covered with a red lycra cover. Very famous in the 1970s, this piece of furniture was reissued by the famous Italian designer Gufram. Who is also the first publisher of this sofa. It has a height of 85 cm, a length of 210 cm, a width of 76 cm and the seat height is 38 cm. Two or three people can sit on this sofa.

Apart from the original red mouth that we know, in 2008, Gufram offered its customers other versions in other colors. Like the “Pink Lady”, a Bocca sofa entirely covered in fuchsia. The same year, he offered another version, this time, it was the “Dark Lady”. The piece of furniture depicts a black mouth with a chrome ring piercing. Which gives it a gothic or rock'n'roll look. This last sofa was produced in a thousand copies.

His origins

It was a wealthy poet and lover of surrealist art of British nationality, Edward James, who commissioned a work of surrealist art from Salvador Dali for his private collection in 1936. The famous painter must have been inspired by glamorous lips and red shoes of American actress Mae West. He is a famous film star and sex symbol of the interwar period.

The painter will use his painting “Mae West's face can be used as a surrealist apartment”, made in collage and gouache on newspaper, to realize his sofa, as well as a three-dimensional work in an apartment. Through an optical lens, we can observe the face of the American actress. Gold curtains represent her hairstyle, the nose is represented by a fireplace with hearths. While two paintings on the wall represent the eyes. Finally, the mouth is materialized by the sofa in the shape of lips.

Mae West lips sofa, 1936, Salvador Dali.

Since then, Dali has declined and sold several versions of this sofa and designers like Gufram or Studio 65 have reproduced, revisited, and sold it as well. You can find these variants and reproductions in museums such as the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam or the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Integrate it into your interior

The famous red mouth is Gufram's best-known work. She has been featured on covers and featured in several editorials in fashion and design magazines. The most famous are Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair or Harper's Baazar.

How to integrate it into your interior? Here we will say that there is no limit. This sofa can be very suitable for a bedroom or living room. And let's get crazy, you can even integrate it into your office. When it comes to decoration, it all depends on the effect you want to give to your interior. The red Bocca sofa harmonizes perfectly with a total white look: white carpet, white curtains... In this way, it will become the center of attraction of your room.

Its cost

Gufram is a very famous Italian designer. He is particularly known for his original and offbeat works. He offers his customers a coat rack in the shape of a cactus, a “broken” wall mirror, coffee tables in the shape of earth bricks, poufs in the shape of candles or stones, and a modular sofa. But also and above all the famous red mouth sofa.

You can find these sofas for sale directly on our site. Some artisans can reproduce it for you with the options you want to have, such as a different color apart from the traditional tones like red, black and pink. You can also request a removable cover.

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On the market, apart from pink, red and black, it is quite possible to find it in a golden color. The common point between all these sofas is that they represent the luscious mouth of a woman. If you also wish, the covering can be removable.