PH has embraced the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities – encyclopedic collections of types of objects that derive from the culture of Renaissance Europe. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, historical relics, works of art and antiquities. The Wunderkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater, conveying symbolically the patron’s control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction.

Designers Amanda, Chris and Emily scored our area’s thrift stores to produce our own Cabinets of Curiosities. Among the finds:

Another find: a birdcage-esque armoire

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In displaying the items, we also took inspiration from Joseph Cornell’s 1960s boxed assemblages. Take a peak inside this refurb stack of cubbies:

Wunderbar!