Taxidermied animals may seem creepy to some of us now, but these faux animal trophies are a cool throwback to a time when they were more popular. Some faux animal trophies also have a jokey element about them, like the squirrels playing hide and seek, or the unicorn made of white cardboard. If your bare walls are crying for tongue-in-cheek adornment, try these!
Shown above from left to right:
1. Photo of Living Room with Hide and Seek Squirrels by Angie Cho
2. Vintage Brass Mounted Deer Head with Huge Antlers, $120.00 from Monki Village
3. Bend Seating Geometric Animals - Mama Bear, $129.00 from Design Republic
4. Animal Friendly Unicorn Bust, $27.99 from Perpetual Kid
5. Miss Penelope Pink-Deer, Faux Taxidermy Stuffed Antler Trophy, $60.00 from AI Creatures
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Those are cute, but the Plushkill Forest ones by Cherrybox Studios are even cuter.
http://www.thecherrybox.com/html/plushies.html
The faux is cute~really cute~but I still prefer the real deal. I have taken all of mine (harvested by me) and did European mounts! I lalala love them!!!
faux taxidermy dates back at least to Picasso, whose toro (bicycle seat and handlebars) is a classic that my DH replicated for our house; similar ones can be purchased at this ETSY store. (I've no relationship to this store, other than a similar love of picasso).
I made a faux moose head 30 years ago for my son's bedroom. I cut the antlers from a flat piece of plywood and made the moose head from stretchy brown terrycloth - I think it was an old crib sheet. It had button eyes and hanging pegs in the plywood antlers.
It was so cute, I can't throw it away. I keep seeing the faux ones in AT and they remind me of this one.
@NHIZNAME I still prefer the real deal, too.
So tired of this.
Mom had some porcelain squirrels in the 1960's -- but we thought of them as faux LIVE animals, not faux DEAD ones!
Faux taxidermy is whimsical at first, but when you delve deeper, it comes back to the idea of representing dead animals as trophies. I'd like us, as a species, to move away from the idea of animal death being decorative. Figures or paintings of intact, "living" animals are more soul-satisfying than mounted heads. (There are exceptions: there are fetish figures from tribal cultures that aren't meant to resemble trophies, for instance, that are just heads. It's the trophy psychology I'm concerned with, and the implicit cruelty of trophies.) Just one viewpoint, of course...
I'm with Polly -- VERY over this fad.
@SHERRYBINNH You should check out the AI Creatures link above. That shop has Veggie trophies which are just vegetables mounted on plaques, no animal representation.
I'll admit that some of these are cute, but after seeing them in SO many of the Small Cool contest entries, I'm officially bored with them.