BRITISH SHORTHAIR

The British Shorthair is the founding cat of the modern fancy, descended from the sturdy shorthairs the Romans carried to Britain two thousand years ago and left to weather the island's damp centuries. It was Harrison Weir who saw the breed's quiet dignity and staged the first organised cat show at the Crystal Palace in 1871, where the British Shorthair took the honours and the very notion of the pedigree cat was born.

The breed is said to have given Lewis Carroll his Cheshire Cat, and its unbothered, moon-faced expression has since become one of the most recognisable in the world, a fixture of British advertising and a quiet obsession in Japan. Few cats have been so consistently loved for simply refusing to be impressed by anything at all.

The British Shorthair edition is the most composed in the REMUS Collection. A slate blue linen cover, the breed's dense, crisp coat reimagined through extreme macro photography, every short hair standing away from the body like the pile of velvet, every plush fold a study in restraint. A tribute to the cat that founded the fancy and never once lost its calm.