DEVON REX

The Devon Rex began with a single curly kitten named Kirlee, born in 1959 near a disused tin mine in Buckfastleigh, Devon, to a stray calico and a feral tom whose rippled coat had already become local legend. Breeders assumed the curl was the same mutation that had surfaced in Cornwall a decade earlier, but when Kirlee was crossed with the Cornish Rex every kitten came out straight. The curl was his alone, a separate recessive gene, discovered by accident and carried into the world by one cat.

No breed has collected more names. The pixie cat, the alien cat, the poodle cat, a monkey in a catsuit. The Devon Rex has spent six decades being described by everyone who meets it and pinned down by no one. Enormous low-set ears, a wedge of a face, eyes too large for the skull, and a coat that ripples rather than lies flat. It rides on shoulders, follows its people from room to room, and behaves less like a cat than like a small conspirator.

The Devon Rex edition is the most impish in the REMUS Collection. A verdigris linen cover, the breed's soft rippled coat reimagined through extreme macro photography, every wave and every fine down hair caught in low light, every whisker curling away like a question. A tribute to the cat that arrived by accident and never once behaved.