Surrealist artist Salvador Dali designs and hosts a party held in the Bali Room of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California in 1941. The event was titled Night in a Surrealist Forest and it was a fundraiser to help European artists displaced by the Second World War. Guests were asked to come in costumes inspired by their dreams. Dalí brought in animals from the San Francisco zoo. His wife Gala dressed in a unicorn’s head hosted the dinner from the comfort of a giant bed. Monkeys roamed the ballroom. Dalí wanted giraffes... but the zoo said no. Guests included Alfred Hitchcock, Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope... #California #Dalí #zoo #ballroom #party #ball #fyp #art #arts #Surrealist #vintage #surrealism #contemporaryart #dream #costume #ballroom #videoart #painting #modernart #modernism #abstractart