This flat-packed, wooden trophy head by Lausanne-based designer Augustin Scott de Martinville is part of a series that seeks to reinterpret “the codes of bourgeois furniture.” (Also available in deer and roedeer.) It fits into a rich history of animal-inspired design. In 1758, French architect Charles-Franois Ribart proposed a three-level structure for the site where the Arc de Triomphe now stands: it’d take the form of a stone elephant, complete with rudimentary air conditioning, furniture that folds into the walls, and drainage that circulates out the trunk of L’elephant triomphal. Ribart’s zoomorphic architecture has a more contemporary cousin: in Margate, New Jersey, a 124-year-old elephant structure named Lucy is the last remaining sculpture of its kind and dubbed “the world’s largest elephant.”
