{"id":312270,"date":"2010-02-12T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"1803 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:36:59","slug":"viktor-wynds-little-shop-of-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312270","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

United Kingdom<\/a>, Europe<\/a> | Purveyors of Curiosities<\/a><\/p>\n

Since 2006, the Last Tuesday Society, under the direction of its “Chancellor,” Viktor Wynd, and his father and Regent of the Society, Silas Wynd, have been putting on dandy-oriented art shows, events, and “crying parties” in which attendees come for “an evening of exquisite misery,” all of which come generously sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin. <\/p>\n

The latest Hendrick’s-sponsored project from the Last Tuesday Society and its Chancellor is the Little Shop of Horrors. The Shop, “a vainglorious attempt to recreate a 17th-century Kunstkamera,” sits in “deepest darkest hackney, amongst the grime of one the greatest centers of urban deprivation and poverty in Europe” and sells curios.<\/p>\n

A further description of the Shop: “…Underground in a basement soaked blood red, in old museum cabinets lurks a collection of wonder-inspiring objects, recreating a sense of the aesthetic that judges objects purely on what they look like, juxtaposing modern sex toys with antique dolls, anatomical specimens, skulls and ivory carvings, carnivorous plants with mortuary tables, McDonald’s happy toys, tin toys and ivory phalluses.”<\/p>\n

As it is a sponsored store, it is unclear how long the Shop will stay open. But while it does, it offers several items of real interest\u2014from medical specimens such as human fetuses and shrunken heads to carnivorous plants and fragile orchids.<\/p>\n

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