Taxidermy
“This beautifully bound book covers taxidermy’s story, starting with the Egyptian mummification of cats to contemporary feather fashion on the catwalk.” ~San Francisco Chronicle“Taxidermyis Alexis Turner’s beautifully designed homage to the long- established, curious and flamboyant art of skinning and stuffing dead creatures. Turner’s examination of the practice encompasses religious beliefs, science and museums, interiors, fashion and advertising, tracking it all the way to the present day in a fascinating and occasionally queasy-making narrative.Taxidermyis a cabinet-of-curiosities of a book. It’s beautiful, odd, intriguing, strange and sometimes repellent, just like the history of taxidermy itself.”~The Irish Times“The 337 images inTaxidermyare artful and immaculate-- everything that a taxidermy workshop, with its dust, fumes, stench, viscera and decay, is not. This book is eye candy, which makes sense because Alexis Turner is the founder of London Taxidermy, a business that supplies natural history artifacts to the fashion and film industries, among other clients. You can see his stuffed and pickled props in the “Harry Potter” films, “Sherlock ­Holmes,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Les ­Misérables,” “Anna Karenina,” “Skyfall” — and now in this book.” ~TheNew York Times “Alex Turner’sTaxidermyis historical, romantic and curiosity-shop voyeurism. Turner’s book is the first to consider this medium as an art for. The renowned London dealer and collector showcases the very best of both classic work and modern contemporary pieces.”~Huffington Post