Article: A Passion to Hang Designs From Nature on Walls and People - New York Times

TED MUEHLING'S Manhattan apartment contains the following: Moths' wings. Quail eggs. Venus combs. Nautilus shells. Beach rocks. One gilded cupid. Fossilized squids. A stuffed striped bass suspended from the ceiling.An apartment decorated with leaves and tree branches might not be everyone's idea of serenity. Neither would his studio, where a birch bark canoe is suspended from the ceiling. "I was trying to make the woods in a corner of Manhattan," Mr. Muehling said. But in the objects Mr. Muehling designs, which range from earrings, pins and other jewelry to candlesticks and spoons, the 38-year-old designer applies a naturalist's sense of beauty to man-made forms.When Mr. Muehling goes to ...

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