PERSIAN

The Persian is the most photographed cat in history, a creature whose long-haired silhouette and flat-faced expression has graced everything from Renaissance miniatures to the pages of Vanity Fair. Its origins trace to the high plateaus of seventeenth-century Persia, where Italian traveler Pietro della Valle first brought the breed back to Europe in 1626, igniting a fascination that has never cooled.

Queen Victoria kept blue Persians; Florence Nightingale, a lifelong cat lover, is said to have owned dozens; and for centuries the breed has occupied the laps of the powerful, from the European courts to the drawing rooms of Hollywood. Few cats have spent so long in the company of the famous.

The Persian edition is the most opulent in the REMUS Collection. A pale aqua linen cover, the breed's celebrated cloud-like coat reimagined through extreme macro photography, every long guard hair rendered with the precision of brushed silk, every soft pouf a small landscape. A tribute to the most photographed cat the world has ever loved.