I have a slight doll/mannequin phobia. A regular size Barbie freaks me out. This would push me over the edge!

Love all of them, except for the doll.
I would be terribly afraid to sit under the rowboat though.

Rowboat on the ceiling? Upside down chair on the wall? Now designers are just trying to bait Catalog Living.

1. Why
2. Why
3. I get it but not in that space
4. Why
5. I get it, kind of fun

I love the red lamp. The image is surreal, as if the room were actually doll furniture on a desk. I'm not sure I could live with it, but I think it looks cool.

I love them all, except the doll scares me too...

Where can I find the red lamp?

Oh I see that there's a link directly to the red lamp. And it's thousands of dollars. I'll add that right to my shopping list.

I love the row boat. It fits that space and seems to be a great way to display, without taking up valuable space, a piece that may have meaning to its owner. I may inherit a small, antique sleigh and was considering something similar, if I don't use it to store blankets or some such.

Different and irreverent -- definitely. Attractive and inviting -- definitely not. I agree with pasqual they are trying too hard.

As a school project, a young woman recently made a life-size Barbie using the actual proportions of the doll. It looked inhuman and scary, like a badly deformed attempt by aliens to make a fembot. When blown up, Barbie's bust to waist ratio is seen to be especially absurd.

Big no.

Hahaha @missbellahell. In-DEED.

I like creativity in design, but not when it sacrifices usability. I, too, love the oversized red lamp (I'd feel like I was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; to me, whimsy is a good thing!), but everything else is just...silly.

I wonder if #2 is almost a storage idea? I could see that as plausible for small spaces, especially if you like to, oh, I don't know, host gatherings of more than two people, but as decoration - no thanks.

The doll reminds me of how, as a school project, a young woman recently made a life-size Barbie based on the doll's actual dimensions. The student was exploring the effects of the well-marketed body image on girls. The life-size version was absurd and scary, like a badly deformed fembot. When blown up, the bust to waist ratio is seen to be especially unrealistic.

Rowboat on the ceiling? Someone must be channelling Hildi from Trading Spaces. She once put ALL of the furniture on the ceiling.

Oops, sorry for the redundancy, I thought I'd unintentionally deleted my first comment.

I actually really like the old rowboat, but NOT on the ceiling. I'd want to put it on the floor and fill it with pillows or something so people could sit in it. That seems like it could be fun.

I also like the enormous red lamp. Not sure that it's something I would do myself, but it adds a fun vibe.

All the others are just ridiculous. And the mannequins are terrifying. TERRIFYING.

No.1 - too surrealist for my tastes. I bet that room isn't in San Francisco!
No.2 - in tight spaces, it works for storing extra chairs in a pinch.
No.3 - reminds me of the Pixar lamp, which is cool, but I would probably have nightmares of the lamp trying to jump on me. Eeks!

@Miami's Elaine: Scientists studied Barbie's proportions and discovered that, among other problems with her proportions, her legs would be too long and thin to enable her to walk on her own.

Also, I love #4. I assume it's not permanent, as the dried flowers are pretty much fire starters, but I would like it as a temporary decoration.

1. Obviously doesn't live in earthquake territory.
2. A Quaker who liked Popsicles as a child?
3. That lamp needs a more modern room. Or an office at Pixar.
4. Creepy. Like Tim Burton's daughter's bedroom.
5. Even creepier. Someone doesn't love women (or herself).

That red lamp is awesome, it needs to go next to a giant chair and side table. 8^P

That mannequin looks like Cindy Wilson!

The doll is potentially excellent but would need to see it in the context of the whole apartment; the boat is all right - depending on the people who live there it could be cringingly try-hard or quite charming, but the others are really very poor. Disappointing post - let's see something irreverent AND stylish, please!

@rapunzel, I didn't know that about Barbie--too funny.

Rowboat of Damocles. Not over MY bed! (Maybe over the dining table where I'd be awake and alert to the danger???)

1. Obviously doesn't live in earthquake territory.

He lives in LA, so I think he does.

What are those dried plants? They resemble Queen Anne's Lace, but on steroids! I don't recognize them, unless they are photoshopped in not real...

For some reason the Nagel creeps me out more than the Barbie.

Irreverent is not the right word for this.

@honeyhaze
If you don't care about the red, there are various knockoffs (if you want to call them that) around. (I mean, when the design concept is "let's make a floor lamp that looks like a scaled-up desk lamp!" I think it's fair for everyone to eventually make their own.) CB2's alpha floor lamp is $230.

I love everything except the chair. It's placement is too random. Maybe if there were at least 3 in a row and the display also functioned as storage?

I LOVE the row-boat. I'm all for unexpected weirdness in decor. Still trying to figure out how to get a sawed-off, full size tree trunk into my bedroom.

Is that a Nagel poster in the last pic? I remember those from the 80s (is that considered vintage now?) and how I wanted to decorate my room with a whole bunch of those. I still find them rather striking.

I think in the dark the Barbie would scare the beejesus out of me.

Both the red lamp and Barbie scare me.