Natural curiosities

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A selection of photographs from the book “A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science.”

The artist Viktor Wynd is a collector with no apparent filter – taxidermy, human remains, giant beans and McDonald’s Happy Meal toys all form part of his collection

In amongst the craziness which is our floors renovations (soon to be over) I have been stumbling (literally) across ten years worth of books and magazines that I had archived in my reference library. One of these rediscoveries is an all time favourite – Albertus Seba’s ‘Cabinet of Natural Curiosities’, an absolute pearl of a book. I trawled […]

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Packed with careful illustrations of striped snakes, preserved creatures, and now-extinct animals, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the most impressive natural history compendiums of the 18th Century. Spanning nearly 600 pages, the new edition from Taschen features the work of Amsterdam-based pharmacist and zoologist Albertus Seba, who was a renowned collector of natural life. He commissioned the meticulous illustrations in 1731 that he then published into four, hand-colored volumes…

After months of searching for the perfect dining room buffet, I decided to check into having one made. The table is 9′ long and it needed a piece that could compete with it. Everything I had found was not nearly big enough or cost an arm and a leg. You may be thinking “custom can’t be cheap” but custom actually ended up being cheaper than a lot of mediocre quality, a-bit-small buffets. I think the key was working with a cabinet maker over someone who strictly makes furniture. That meant…