bestiary
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Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023
The bestiary of acceptable species on which respectable researchers can experiment is expanding.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2022
Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel.
From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022
“I have touched them, I have not only seen them in photos,” Zelaya said of his mental bestiary, as he flipped through an iPad of drawings at a restaurant in North Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2021
Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Impossible Creatures
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