Always curious about new scientific discoveries, the atom become one of Salvador Dalí favorite subjects of reflexion. Dalí borrows the image of a Madonna by Raphael Sanzio to conceived the Maximum Speed of Raphael’s Madonna.
Her breaks up into spheres, geometrically perfect figures, and into forms resembling rhinoceros horns as Dalí unearths logarithmic spiral forms based on the pattern of Divine Proportion. Inspired by the so-called “atomic period” of Dalí, Malabar designers conceived the Madonna stool.