{"id":1550,"date":"2012-09-26T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:29","slug":"frederique-morrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/frederique-morrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This eccentric couple, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel<\/a> and Aaron Levin (with their three children and two Jack Russels), have created the most unusual collection of taxidermic creatures. Playing upon several themes (beauty vs. ugly; man vs. animal; art vs. decoration) this peculiar pair stitch together scraps of vintage and contemporary tapestries creating a new luxurious hunting trophy complete with real antlers and fur. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This eccentric couple, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel and Aaron Levin (with their three children and two Jack Russels), have created the most unusual collection of taxidermic creatures. Playing upon several themes (beauty vs. ugly; man vs. animal; art vs. decoration) this peculiar pair stitch together scraps of vintage and contemporary tapestries creating a new luxurious hunting trophy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,281,102],"tags":[291,37,125,293,290,1878,1870,294,292],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","category-sculpture","tag-aaron-levin","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-bambi","tag-frederique-morrel","tag-mixed-media","tag-sculpture","tag-tapestries","tag-taxidermy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-p0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4274,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/sabine-finkenauer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1550,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Sabine Finkenauer","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sabine Finkenauer's artistic talents spread across several mediums from sculptural work with wrought iron and wood to drawing, painting and collage work. 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