![]() ![]() ![]() – to a magnificent albino peacock, owls and parrots of all sizes and a quantity of insects. Orlowska’s colourful menagerie ranges from big game – a huge trophy rhino, antelope, or hippopotamus heads, tigers, bears, baby elephants and half a giraffe Orlowska’s wit, imagination and eye for the beautiful as well as the wacky make her latest shop a frolicsome counterpoint to the more polished Deyrolle. All these creatures are close to the heart of Anne Orlowska, who began her career in taxidermy as the owner of Deyrolle from 1994 to 2001, when she sold the outfit to Louis Albert de Broglie. Not such a silly question, considering visitors to Design et Nature, a crowded taxidermy shop in an 18th-century building near the Place des Victoires, are greeted by a phalanx of pastel-coloured chickens, twin trophy unicorn heads (in black or white) and a rat dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci poised in front of his “mousterpiece”. “Are these real animals?” marvels a wide-eyed tourist. Rare species come with all the proper certifications and no endangered species are sold here. None of the animals are hunted in the wild, but donated by zoos, circuses or private collections after perishing of natural causes. The boutique’s outstanding collection of insects, filling dozens of drawers that visitors are welcome to explore at their leisure, are mostly farmed. Taxidermy meets horticulture in this ‘butterfly terrarium’ at Deyrolle. #Heads on display in paris professionalBudding and professional taxidermists will also find all the pins, boxes and tools of the trade. You will still find dozens of pedagogic posters, old and new, and natural history books – and the boutique avidly supports projects for sustainability and ecology. That’s not to say Deyrolle has abandoned its age-old role as educator. Nowadays you can find anything from aristocratic gardening tools and charming limited-edition sneakers sporting colourful butterflies to magnificent shells and corals, glittering bell jars of butterflies, birds, flowers and/or beetles (€160-€3,000), a Siberian tiger (€25,500) or a massive water buffalo with a fluttering heart of buttercup-coloured butterflies (€30,000). Famous politicians, actors and artists along with fans from far and wide raised enough to restore the 17th-century premises to an elegant facsimile of its ancient self. Photo: Philippe CalandreĪfter a fire swept through the shop in 2008, charring the original wooden cabinets and incinerating 90 per cent of the collection, all of Paris rallied to this much-loved landmark in an avalanche of support. In 2001, it was bought by Prince Louis Albert de Broglie – founder of the elegant gardening line Le Prince Jardinier – and transformed from a dusty, chaotic and astonishing jumble of wild and domestic bugs, birds and beasts ready to pounce from every surface to a polished Saint-Germain boutique.ĭeyrolle is a natural history museum in miniature. The shop has weathered its own life cycles. ![]() Frenchmen and women of all generations remember the name from their school days, printed on educational charts covering such wide-ranging topics as the grape varieties of France, the human circulatory system, the life cycle of frogs and even the perils of alcoholism. A feeling Parisians have shared for the near-two centuries that this specialist in taxidermy, entomology and natural history has resided at 46 rue du Bac. Print run of 1500.Deyrolle may be the reigning queen of taxidermy, but it’s not the only place to discover a glorious array of preserved wildlife in Paris, says Jennifer LadonneĪnyone who’s been to Deyrolle, Paris’s great cabinet of curiosities, has come away feeling they’ve made a marvellous discovery. Single territory for trade global for academic. Print and/or digital / eBook, including for use in on-line academic databases. Image for Magazines and Journals Book use Image for Website or Social Media Magazines and Journals Web display, social media, apps or blogs. Image for Presentation Website or Social Media Personal presentation use or non-commercial, non-public use within a company or organization only. Not for commercial use, not for public display, not for resale. Personal Prints, Cards, Gifts, Reference. ![]()
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