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Polly Morgan At Haunch Of Venison, London


Polly Morgan makes her living stuffing animals into bell-jars. As a trained taxidermist, she creates fantastical, surreal and darkly humorous sculptures out of creatures she finds dead from accidental or natural causes: Birds sleep beneath tiny chandeliers, rats curl up in champagne flutes and Dalí’s lobster phone is updated via an upside-down pigeon. Her first…

‘Spun’ by Thomas Heatherwick


For his second solo exhibition at Haunch of Venison London, British designer Thomas Heatherwick has produced a startling twist on conventional furniture design: a functional chair formed from a single profile rotated through 360 degrees. Aptly titled ‘Spun ’ it transforms the domestic seat into a beautifully rendered spinning top. The appeal was to create a…