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Frédérique Morrel may be the world’s most creative collector of vintage tapestries. After hunting down the textiles at flea markets across France, the Paris-based designer uses sections of them to cover animal forms in fantastical patchworks of color and pattern, creating faux taxidermy.
Morrel’s latest creations are now on view in a selling exhibition at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. This time, she has pushed her whimsical creations to the max by combining animal parts with furniture—a bench, for instance, has merged with a wolf; a table is supported by a deer head; and a convex mirror is guarded by an antlered creature. “It’s a story about the animals of a lost paradise,” says Morrel. “They come back to visit us from another world. Sometimes they want to stay here, so they mix with the furniture, and you see in a table or chair a metamorphosis with an animal.”
Through June 10 at Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Avenue, 7th fl., New York; bergdorfgoodman.com.
