Taxidermy: the new centerpiece?
I've seen a couple of mentions of taxidermy in fashionable places lately, and it's wholly intriguing to me. It's very Victorian, very macabre--sort of Edgar Allen Poe and Norman Bates sharing a flat. Would you put a dead animal in your home? In my fantasy world I would, but real life? I'm not sold.
On Decor8, Deyrolle Paris is mentioned as a source for scientific/botanical illustrations ... and also stuffed animals, large and small. These things don't come cheap, let me tell you:
The March issue of Elle Decor (UK) featured the work of Polly Morgan, a serious British taxidermist with a flair for darkness:
I love this ... cloches have come back into fashion as decorative objects, and I see them popping up all over the place. Morgan frequently employs bell jars/cloches in her still lifes, but quite differently than Martha Stewart does! I love the one on the right; it's very Hitchcockian.
April
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"Sometimes we don't even use the whole animal...just one leg, and the rest will be sculptural. We want to really find out what the essence of the animal was, and bring it out sculpturally."
*blank stares, open mouths*
"Last week someone wanted us to stuff their grandmother."
*horrified*
"$25,000. I don't think they're going to do it"
*walk away*