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I like the pig, but I absolutely dislike the other animals.

The horse is creepy.

I like the rabbit lamp -- reminds me of the rabbit-in-a-hat trick. But in white, please!

the lampshade on the head doesn't look quite right, but the sculptural element is kinda cool.

Dig the rabbit lamp. Horse and pig are very poorly executed.

I just came back from Reyjkavik and saw the horse lamp in a restaurant window. It was daunting to say the least.

I saw all these on the site with the "fez" lamp. They're just bizarre. Probably fits in with a context involving children, but difficulty finding space for it in another room. You might have a really boring room you need to add a spot of strangeness to, or you may be on a complete theme of look how weird I am, but it could work. It usually doesn't, but go for it.

The rabbit and horse look like they're wearing hats...

hummm why not? I guess the originality of it all makes it interesting enough to remain unusual even after these trends fall out of taste.

Funny you should mention a fez lamp, KTG.

My first thought:
Just add a tassle to each shade and, ta-da!, the rabbits and horse are Shriners.

I still remember coming home from college to find my parents had bought a new coffee table for the living room. It's a bear laying on it's back with paws & legs in the air that hold up an oval-shaped glass top. 15 years later they still have that table in their living room, and I still shudder every time I see it. These remind me of the bear coffee table, so I vote NOT!

Love the rabbits.
Horse looks like a prop from a Bergdorf's window. Not that that's a bad thing.

Ha ha ha! ...wait was that meant to be a joke??

KTG, given the pricetags on these lamps I don't imagine children getting anywhere near them! The horse runs about $7,500... there was even a special edition that ran north of $40k!

I have a better idea then, why not invert the idea as an actual light-hat for a real horse?

Ok I'll shut up now.

I don't like it. My boyfriend's mom has a frog bedside table. it's a frog, standing up, dressed in breeches and a brass-button coat and spectacles, holding a tray. It's so awful it's hilarious - animal furniture of any kind is not my thing.

Maggiesfarm:

Please post a picture of the frog lamp ASAP. I won't be able to sleep until I see it.

Seriously.

I can't really explain why but I love the rabbit lamp.

The pig table could work but it's a stretch.

THe horse just creeps me out. Not sure why.

tacky! creepy! eebie jeebies all around!

I said what I said because I'm trying to keep an open mind. I also have memories of that awful animal table phase. I was selling furniture at the time, and we had some examples out in the showroom. This is related to my aversion of decorative book motifs of books that aren't really books. Books and animals glass top cocktail tables are shudderful, and these lights recall them to me. I learned a lot of what to hate by selling furniture because it was middle-to-low quality and varieties of non-spectacular, dated style stuff that was just popular with my hometown demographic. I have a hard time reconciling a tacky baby elephant coffee table with a high-end line of horse lamps in categories of taste. I wish I could find it amusing, but I just can't.

YES!
But it all depends on the way they are used, I can easily see them used in super tacky ways like at a cheezy restaurant, esp at that price.

They're more interesting than all the cartoon-ish animal lamps/decor/etc on the market. And I love that they are painted all black.

We have these (headless) dog speakers at my office.. They creep some people out but I think they're cool and I love dogs.

dig the bunny lamps, but would never, ever, put them in my house!

creepy... maybe if the bunny and shade were white?