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1stDibs is a digital cabinet of curiosities, a place of fertile imagination that offers access to the surprising, the remarkable and the wonderfully weird. The inherent need to showcase these delightful treasures remains a key part of our humanity. And who doesn’t love a good story?<\/p>\n\t

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1STDIBS LAUNCHES DEALERS IN THE UK AND EUROPE.<\/p>\n\t

1stDibs is a digital cabinet of curiosities, a place of fertile imagination that offers access to the surprising, the remarkable and the wonderfully weird. The inherent need to showcase these delightful treasures remains a key part of our humanity. And who doesn’t love a good story?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"cabinetmobile\"\n\t\n\t

This fossilized dragonfly dates back 150 million years to the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. It was sourced by Dale Rogers, who started with a modest market stall in London’s Portobello Road and built his reputation on fine specimens that are now known on every continent.<\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"detail\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"2012mobile\"\n\t\n\t

This fossilized dragonfly dates back 150 million years to the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. It was sourced by Dale Rogers, who started with a modest market stall in London’s Portobello Road and built his reputation on fine specimens that are now known on every continent.<\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"detail\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"wunderkammer\"\n\t

Embrace the Fantastical<\/p>\n\t

In the days before museums, wunderkammern<\/em> were used to showcase interesting collectibles, rare artifacts and exotic specimens. If you’d like to curate your own cabinet of curiosity, we’ve chosen five unusual pieces that are truly tempting – and wonderfully weird.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Oreodont Skull Fossil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Though its fanged canine teeth are startling to behold, the oreodont was an herbivore, feasting on plants and other types of vegetation during the Middle Eocene period, around 35 million years ago. Part of the prehistoric family of artiodactyls, it was a herd-like mammal whose closest living relative is the camel. Oreodonts roamed the savannahs of North America, and this spectacular specimen was likely unearthed in North Dakota's fossil-rich Badlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You are looking at the largest egg ever laid. Creamy white in color, with a beautiful spotted surface, the artifact is from an aepyornis maximus or \"elephant bird.\" This enormous creature weighed an estimated 1200lb, and it was capable of growing to a height of 10 or 11 feet. Extinct between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, the species left few intact examples of their eggs \u2014 with less than forty known specimens currently preserved in public institutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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19th Century Gold Filled Mourning Pendant with Braided Woven Hair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the Georgian and Victorian eras, woven hair art was used to memorialize a departed loved one or given as a keepsake during a loved one's extended absence. Typically, a pendant was worn high up on one's chest and was meant to keep someone dear very close to the heart. This delicate piece features a coil of gently braided hair set behind glass in a filigree-worked gold-filled pendant setting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Crafted in England around 1830, this box features four skulls on its lid with the names Witch, King, Beauty and Beggar. It's a vivid example of a memento mori, which translates to \"remember death.\" It was part of a tradition in Ancient Rome in which a victorious general was paraded through town with a servant behind him whispering \"memento mori\" to remind the general of his mortality. During medieval times and up to the Era of Enlightenment, artists and craftsmen used memento mori iconography to contemplate death and the transience of Earthly pursuits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even for antiquity, the provenance of this exceptionally rare piece is out of this world. It is a pallasite meteorite and was first found in 1967 in Madagn Oblast, in Siberia, Russia. The distinct triangle pattern on the surface of the piece is referred to as a Widmanstatten pattern. It formed more than 4.5 billion years ago as the metals within the meteor cooled. One iron-nickel mineral called kamacite formed thin layers along the surface of crystals of another, called taenite. The two minerals differ in their resistance to etching by acid or erosion by wind-blown sand, so those processes can make the pattern visible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Designer Tip<\/p>\n\t

Hubert Zandberg on Collecting<\/p>\n\t

Since childhood, this founder of the eponymous design firm Hubert Zandberg Interiors, has been fascinated by collecting. Intrigued by all manner of subjects – contemporary art, photography, modernist furniture, vintage barware and more – he’s curated a glorious collection. Displaying this cache of treasures is a bit of a challenge, however. The relationship between objects and the narratives created by their placement elevates collecting to an art form – and Hubert is the consummate collector.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hubert Zandberg on Collecting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since childhood, this founder of the eponymous design firm Hubert Zandberg Interiors, has been fascinated by collecting. Intrigued by all manner of subjects \u2014 contemporary art, photography, modernist furniture, vintage barware and more \u2014 he's curated a glorious collection. Displaying this cache of treasures is a bit of a challenge, however. The relationship between objects and the narratives created by their placement elevates collecting to an art form \u2014 and Hubert is the consummate collector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 1: Collections should always speak to the collector's personality, interests and loves. This approach imbues the objects with positive energy and authenticity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 2: Vintage display cases, Victorian glass domes and old shop fittings can display collections of smaller items to prevent an overly cluttered look. They can also double as bar units or be used for practical storage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 3: Look out for vintage display cases, Victorian glass domes and old shop fittings to contain collections of smaller items to prevent an overly cluttered look. These can double as bar units or used in addition for practical storage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 4: Create a cabinet of curiosities with items that have intrinsic or sentimental value \u2014 from art to travel mementos \u2014 and let them tell your unique story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 5: Gather your collections on picture shelves and wall brackets to form a specific narrative or theme. This curation offers a visual moment that is clean and cohesive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 6: Make use of spaces like hallways, lobbies, kitchens \u2014 and even bathrooms \u2014 to create galleries where guests are exposed to multiple objects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip 7: Vibrant contemporary colors provide balance when used as a background for objects. When displaying more monochromatic collections, they even offer a lovely contrast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It would be entirely fair to say Dale Rogers’ life changed at 24 years old. It was then, sitting in the cafe of an antique emporium in Morocco, that he noticed that the black stone tabletop in front of him was embedded with immaculately fossilized sea creatures in their shells. Rogers, who had no prior interest in geology or natural history bought a handful of the fossils “for nothing” and proceeded to travel around the country in search of their source.<\/p>\n

Cut to 30 years later and the London-based Rogers is the proprietor of one of the most extraordinary shops in the world. Dale Rogers Ammonite is full of museum-quality ammonites – the term used for a group of squidlike predators that lived inside coiled shells 65 to 240 million years ago and ranged in size from hand-held tiny to nearly seven feet across. The store features huge displays of intricately swirling shells piled against one another; dazzling chunks of lapus lazuli, rose quartz and citrine, mounted like contemporary sculptures; tapering columns of amethyst stretch to the ceiling; dinosaur skulls and whale jaws hang overhead; and fossilized skeletons of reptiles and fish.<\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"dalerogers\"\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\""Lorem\n\t

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Very Rewarding<\/p>\n\t\n

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Discovering Style + Lifestyle Editor Gianluca Longo’s Fan Collection<\/p>\n\t