Harry Allen's Bestow Candleholder/Vase

Kinda Creepy! We had to share this striking design available at Elsewares. Designer Harry Allen cast his own hand in polyester resin and the wall-mounted hand holds either a tube vase or a candlestick holder...

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Ohhh, what was the name of that horror book I read where people were living in the walls - and pulled people in with them - one guy was pulled in by his hands and they "shut-off" the ability to move through the walls and he was left with two bloody stumps - a disturbing book and a disturbing look...

posted by Violetsrose on 2007-03-22 09:29:28

creepy!

posted by ForbiddenFruit on 2007-03-21 14:09:17

Creepier with the candlestick.

posted by Joan A. on 2007-03-21 14:15:20

It's lifted straight out of Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/

posted by nora on 2007-03-21 14:25:10

It reminds me of the hands, in Willy Wonka, that grabbed their hats and coats as they entered the factory...

Yes, totally creepy, LOL.

posted by Rucy on 2007-03-21 14:28:18

Moss has been selling Harry Allen hand hooks for years...not to mention the cast pig he made.

posted by Kevin on 2007-03-21 14:41:05

Roman Polanski's Repulsion with Catherine Deneuve.

posted by Enrique on 2007-03-21 14:54:25

I did something similar in my entry to create hooks though I used "baby limbs" as a model to creat my molds.

http://k00kie.freeshell.org/other/buro/12-30-2006/hooks.JPG

http://k00kie.freeshell.org/other/buro/12-30-2006/hooks2.JPG

posted by RKEM on 2007-03-21 14:57:15

RKEM,

That's even creepier!

posted by Archie on 2007-03-21 15:15:05

This is perfect for my new Zombie themed room.

posted by Max on 2007-03-21 15:27:08

i just threw up a little.

posted by ForbiddenFruit on 2007-03-21 16:04:01

I think they're lovely!!!

posted by Hannibal Lechter on 2007-03-21 16:08:23

this is so cool. Goes in my "wish I'd thought of it" category.

posted by Miss Lo on 2007-03-21 16:38:24

Alright guys, you are not going to believe this...

For the past year, I have had a vision in my head of combining an Ecosphere (http://www.eco-sphere.com/) with the "grab hand" by Harry Allen. Well in January I ordered the hand, but it was back-ordered and I didn't receive it until two weeks ago.

It looks even better than it did in my head!

http://www.imbagman.com/bobbytemp/thehand.jpg
http://www.imbagman.com/bobbytemp/thehand2.jpg

posted by Kyle on 2007-03-22 00:28:08

i love the hands, honestly!
i'd totally mount them on my wall!

posted by gerda on 2007-03-22 07:57:00

I am surprised Patrick (the other one) hasn't already commented on this, but the candle one strikes me as more masturbatory (is that a word?) than creepy.

posted by tia on 2007-03-22 11:04:02

Creep-O-Rama!

But as an aside, The Brits were doing body parts/ decorative accesories for the last 25 years.

I was never a big fan.

posted by anne on 2007-03-22 11:22:24

when I was a kid I had a recurring nightmare about hands sticking out of the walls in our apartment (back in Russia), in particular in the long hallway in it.

the baby limbs in particular are reminiscent of that dream.

posted by olya on 2007-03-23 00:52:09