These seaweeds were originally taken from a collection published by William Harvey in 1903. It was a work that was created to further the understanding of different species of seaweeds that surrounded the English islands.

See our Capistrano Seaweeds in Saudi Blue.

Browse our Capistrano Seaweeds, Small collection.

These geometric studies, dated to 1896, were originally educational plates designed to explain the role of geometry in science. We have framed them in acrylic, combining a vintage piece with a modern concept.

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This illustration was taken from La Voyage Aux Sources du Nile by James Bruce in 1768. Bruce was a Scottish explorer who travelled down the Nile River, studying and sketching all forms of life he encountered. This illustration is one of the earliest known of turtles.

See our collection of Nile Voyage Turtles.

To capture the aetherial beauty of our golden, falling feathers, our team of artists begin by painting each bird feather gold. We literally drop the feathers onto their linen bed to preserve an authentic movement and quality to its nature.

See the Falling Feathers Diptych.

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We have taken one of our Turot Geometric pieces, originally a Swedish education aid, and added color to the stunning diagonals. These prints are available in the colors Aubergine, Cobalt, Canary, Slate, Goldenrod, Ash, High rust, and Moss.

View the entire Turot Geometric Color Collection, and the Turot Silver Leaf Collection, as well as our other Geometric Art.

Natural Curiosities recently acquired the beautiful textile archives of French engraver, painter, and textile artist Paule Marrot (1902-1987). Her bold use of flowers, color and patterns reflect a compositionally modernist style classically associated with the Art Deco movement.

View Poppies along with the rest of the Paule Marrot Collection.

We are again bringing the outdoors in. Our fields of moss reflect our dedication to a lifestyle embracing the theme of the Conservatory. Each field of Sphagnum, Spanish, and Mood moss is bedded on an earthen-stained palette of wood.

See the complete Moss Collection, and our Butterfly Landscapes using moss.

The octopus is everything for Natural Curiosities. It represents everything "curious" about what we do as a company. We have introduced a number of octopus images over the last few years, and Lord Bodner's triptych is the newest addition to our continued fascination of the octopus. The detail of the image is the finest that we have found. The original is a copperplate engraving by Lord Bodner and was published in 1826 in London as part of a series studying creatures of the deep.

Lord Bodner Triptych in Grey

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The Huntzinger Abstracts Collection is a study in abstract form. The images have been silkscreened onto a wood panel that was goldleafed by hand. The black line creates a beautiful minimalist shape on the field of gold.

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In a time of economic upheaval, one of our statement application pieces reflects on this simple expression of “cooking the books.” Each book has been worn in its pages, dipped in an aging elixir, and left to “cook” in the Los Angeles sunshine.

Cooking the Books

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Yvonne Hanriout Giraud (1898-1934) painted these initial designs for a fresco named "Animals Building Noah's Ark" intended for the city of Clamart, near Paris.

See the Hanriout Giraud Alligator in both frescoes and triptychs.

Eagerly awaited, this is our new horse collection that we have been looking for for over 3 years. Every photograph represents the power and magic of these amazing animals. Christopher has partnered with a photographic artist who has been shooting these horses for over 20 years and it's the first time these have been seen.

The Hyden Horses: Blonde

Natural Curiosities recently acquired the beautiful textile archives of French engraver, painter, and textile artist Paule Marrot (1902-1987). Her bold use of flowers, color and patterns reflect a compositionally modernist style classically associated with the Art Deco movement.

Paule Marrot Lillies

Browse the complete Paule Marrot Collection.

Due to the success of the Theodore Garden Mazes that Natural Curiosities brought out in 2007, Christopher has been fortunate enough to find another exquisite collection to do with forming the early flower garden designs. These collections are extrememly hard to find, yet important because of their historical relevance and the importance of creating and designing landscapes for the home.

Browse the Louis Parterre Whole Art of Forming a Flower Garden Collection.

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Use animal prints the way they appear in the wild: surrounded by natural colors, such as taupe and brown. Include modern interpretations (like the pillows on the ottoman) to light the mood, and work in lots of texture for coziness. Subtle furniture tones down the glamour, and a bit of sweeping greenery feels both exotic and inviting. Tylinek Zebra.

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Our resident artists have rendered a new life to this depiction of Noah's Ark, originally published in the Netherlands in 1718. Each animal on every Noah's Ark print is hand-painted using our earthy mixed palette of pine needle, golden rod, soaked stone, root, clay, and badger brown. Because each color is mixed and painted in our studio, every print is unique.

View the hand-watercolored Noah's Ark.

Large-scale tree of life triptych anchors the dining area, as a stunning focal point.

See the Tree of Life Collection

Browse our Botanical and Gold and Silver Leaf Collections.

See the Garden Maze: Étoile.

Browse the rest of our Garden Maze Collection and other garden mazes in our Geometrics Collection.

Natural Curiosities recently acquired the beautiful textile archives of French engraver, painter, and textile artist Paule Marrot (1902-1987). Her bold use of flowers, color and patterns reflect a compositionally modernist style classically associated with the Art Deco movement.

Paule Marrot Shell 2

Browse the entire Paule Marrot Collection.

This collection is an ever changing message of love to be created by anyone and everyone in our attempt to not only make art, but to involve the buyer in the process. Using our alphabet, numbers, punctuation marks and heart in either of our two colors, you can create any statement that you like. It’s romantic message is endless.

We created the font by drawing with shoe polish, and layering the individual letters over vintage love letters, which are then printed on acid-free paper.

See the Love Letters Collection in blue or brown.

This is a fabulous collection where art and paper really do weave into one. Each sheet is made from a combination of raw materials that include mulberry, pineapple, and banana fibers, with much of the material culled from agricultural waste, so they are eco-friendly and sustainable too. These pieces are floated on linen.

Abstract Paper Collection, Series 1

Abstract Paper Collection, Series 2

Abstract Paper Collection, Series 3

Originally compiled by British naturalist, William Harvey, these seaweed images are taken from his work called Psychologica Britannica that was commissioned in 1884.

Harvey Seaweed 12.

Browse the Harvey Seaweed Collection.

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This piece was inspired by an old photograph that was originally purchased in auction in England. The photograph depicts an aristocratic lady standing by her champion horse in 1904. To put it into a more contemporary setting, we have put the horse into a triptych, deckled and floated on linen, and set into a brushed silver shadowbox.

View the Caspari Horse Triptych.

We are still in an Age of Discovery. Continuing our fascination with Books, this is an introduction to the concept of capturing a library for your wall. Not every house may have a library but this represents the idea of collecting perhaps in a more modern manner. We have selected eight books from our library, which remind us to see the world as emerging and developing rather than already discovered. We will be adding to this collection as rediscover new titles that inspire us.

See the Book Spines Collection.

Our newest debut to our “Solid Gold” series is the Helford Horse. Originally taken from the Lord Helford Collection, we have revisited the piece, focusing on the front and back perspectives and applying gold leaf to the entire horse image. We then silkscreen on top of the gold leaf, accentuating the movement and lines on the body.

See The Helford Horse Diptych

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In our wish to continually break new ground, Natural Curiosities strives to create application art here in America using the skilled hands of our own in-house artists to create the beautiful and delicate celebrations of nature’s specimens. In this case we are using hand-selected white, natural sand dollars to create a remarkable design, which becomes so beautiful when combined with others to create abstract patterns.

See more of our Classic Sea Specimens.

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While visiting a town in France bordering with Germany and Switzerland, Christopher discovered the original piece that inspired this design. This image was pulled from a vintage reference design book full of beautiful textile design inspirations.

See both Hand Leafed Wave pieces.

View the complete Gold and Silver Leaf collection.