This Store in Paris Houses 200 Years' Worth of Dead, Gorgeous Animals
We spoke to Deyrolle’s director of taxidermy about how an animal ends up in its famed cabinet of curiosities. Despite being world famous , the Paris taxidermy shop Deyrolle is unmistakably loose to walk by — unless , of course , several faculty members are lifting a stuffed caribou onto a trailer just outside the front door . Up a voluted stairway at the back of a gardening boutique , bat frame and impaled butterfly in stunning transcription watch over red pandas , simper Acinonyx jubatus , and a individual albino peacock ....