Trend Watch! The trend we witnessed develop in the past eight months has trickled down to the mass market by way of West Elm. The new catalog features a Foo Dog Pillow and a modern version of a "Groovy Foo Dog"...
The silk satin pillow cover is priced at $29. The "Groovy Foo Dog" accent looks like it comes in Beet and Black resin. It is a "store only" item and the price was not given in the catalog or online.
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i noticed the dog figurine in the catalog and thought it was pretty neat. that's pretty much all i have to say on the topic!
argh...I feel like the trend was over before it started...
that is soooo not a dog
It looks like the lion/dog/dragon creature statues and figurines all over Okinawa. They were always in pairs and I think they were called "shisha" dogs or something like that.
Trend or no trend - these things remind me of the scary neclace that the Brady boys found in Hawaii that made Greg fall off his surfboard.
Now if only West Elm would mass produce a younger Greg Brady....nah!
I'll let P(2) respond to krister.
What scares me is that I've now seen foo dogs come into fashion three times....
That's a classical chinese motive of a LION. not a dog. Some people put a pair flanking their front doors but usually only the rich and influential does that. Supposedly it's traditionally believed to be a dangerous item to put at the main doors because lions are very 'strong/powerful' creatures, unless the master of the house is powerful enough, or else the lions will bring ill fate to the master of the house.
Anyway, I think you can sometimes see these big lion statues flanking front doors of banks and big business in places like Hong Kong. ( but the last time i have been to Hong Kong was more than a decade ago, my memory might have failed me)
they're guardian spirits. it would be a bit much to put them in front of a "humble" abode, but such figurines might be part of the home altar in the same humble abode.