strangely appealing: horse lamp
Spotted this surreal floor lamp in The New York Times House & Home section. It was listed in a GIFT GUIDE slide show. Now, there aren’t many trees this would fit under, but perhaps it would be appropriate for the little girl who always wanted a pony, but never got one? It’s just about lifesized, but made of resin, so we don’t recommend straddling it. By Front Design for Moooi, $4,100. Not available online, but you can go to ideasforliving.com for stores. What do you think? Would you want this in your home?
December 7th, 2006 at 9:51 am
i love this, but i think you’d need a fairly big space to accomodate it.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:24 am
I’d only want this if I could change out the shade to something with ball fringe.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Makes my bottom sore just looking at it! He he.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:17 am
It looks like it is wearing a little hat. It is surprisingly endearing and I think I would own it. Sometimes my taste even shock myself.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:56 am
Looks like this horsie has had one too many!
December 9th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Interesting you should ask. The answer is YES.I’m going to cut and paste the last paragraph of a comment I left at Decor8 and reposted on my blog. DON’T let this badness happen to you!
Finally, my biggest regret was not buying a life sized metal sculpture of a donkey (The “Big Ass” my husband always calls it) at the flea market 4 years ago. We were very tight for money and it was $250. He hated it, I loved it but it came down to: Do we Eat or buy the Ass? To this day, I wish we’d lived on hot sauce packets from Taco Bell. Lesson learned: if you loveit, will never see one like it again and it tells a wonderful story: BUY IT and worry about food later!
By the horse and a year’s supply of Top Ramen.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:10 am
I have one word for this: “TACKY”
No, make that two words: “EXTREMELY TACKY”
December 11th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
I am oddly drawn to this lamp, even though it goes against every ounce of taste in my body. Perhaps this is an example of how my taste shifts and moves foeward over time.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Makes me laugh! It looks like some artist made a horse sculpture but couldn’t sell it… he then decided to put a lamp shade on it and VOILA! a beautiful lamp for sale!
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