taxidermy

Hats Made of Roadkill by Aspiring Fashion Designer

Filed under: Apparel

Aspiring fashion designer James Faulkner will be debuting a collection of hats at a fashion show in May that's sure to turn heads, but not for all the usual reasons. The hats feature bold designs made of roadkill and consist mostly of the remains of foxes, magpies, rabbits, wood pigeons, pheasants, mallards, crows and peacocks -- the one shown in the picture above is red fox and ostrich (yuck) and there are 35 others. Faulkner has been making the roadkill hats since last year (May 2009) when he noticed a dead magpie and was inspired "to make something beautiful out of something gruesome." The fashion show will mark the end of an 18 week milliners course that Faulkner has been attending.

Via Bornrich

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Tags: hat, hats, james faulkner, JamesFaulkner, roadkill, taxidermy

Dr. Seuss Taxidermy

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

In the 1930's, Dr. Seuss Geisel, most often known simply as Dr. Seuss, set about to turn some of his sketched animals into 3D artworks and used parts from real animals to make his fantastic ones. The collection was known as the Unorthodox Collection of Taxidermy and acquired most of the parts it used from the Forest Park Zoo. The inventive animals include: a Kangaroo Bird, a Semi-Normal Green-Lidded Fawn, a Blue Green Abelard and an Andulovian Grackler, along with many others. Limited reproductions of these original works are now available. While they're not really recommended as a decoration for a child's room, they certainly make good conversation pieces elsewhere in the house.

Unfortunately, some of the pieces are already sold out, so if you want one to add to your collection, you should probably act quickly. A set of four creatures is $8,380, but others are sold individually.

[via boing boing]

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Tags: anima, animals, art, fantasy, sculpture, seuss, taxidermy

Trophy Lamp

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Filed under: Decor

For city-dwellers who may be following the trend, the Trophy Lamp is another way to get some animal imagery into your home without the head of an actual animal. The limited edition light fixture is made from resin, hand-molded into the likeness of a proud deer. It is lit from behind via fluorescent tubes that are embedded in the sculpture. The lamp is $3,950 and not only do you gain an extra light fixture, but you avoid the potential pitfalls (bug infestation, for example) associated with using a real head in your decorating.

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Tags: art, deer, head, lamp, light, lighting, sculpture, taxidermy, trophy

Kate Moss Goes in for Taxidermy

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Filed under: Celebrity Shopping

We've mentioned before that taxidermy is a surprisingly popular trend among city-dwellers apparently so desperate for contact with nature that they're content to put dead animals in their apartments. Of course, some refrain from using real animals, but Kate Moss has just bought into the trend with the purchase of a £4,000 piece called "To Every Seed his own Body" from British taxidermist Polly Morgan. The piece has a blue tit (a small bird) lying apparently dead on top of a prayer book, all under glass. It appears that the piece also has a tiny chandelier inside that can be lit via a cord strung through the bottom of the case.

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Tags: animal, animals, art, bird, blue tit, BlueTit, kate moss, KateMoss, polly morgan, taxidermist, taxidermy, trend

Hunting Lodge Chic Without Taxidermy

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

Last week while reading the Wall Street Journal over coffee, I came upon a rather strange article declaring that taxidermy was on the rise in New York. Or rather, people were buying dead, stuffed animals to decorate their apartments, so business was booming for taxidermists. One woman, a 45-year old ad executive, said that the pair of stuffed deer heads she hung in her apartment's entryway gave "the apartment a feeling of warmth."

I see more negatives than positives from hanging dead animals - no matter how clean - in my living space, so if I wanted to get in on this trend, I'd go for a Wooden Deer Head instead. Hand carved from laminated basswood, the wall decoration is sleeker and less scary than the real thing - not to mention that there is a lower risk of insects taking up residence within and no musty odor to contend with. The antlers are removable for storage purposes and there is a keyhole hanger in the back. Price: $495.

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Tags: animal, animals, deer, taxidermy, trend, wooden deer