Shaded silhouettes keep popping up, and we think it's about time to call it a trend. Mike Miller, an artist and antiques aficionado, designed new-but-retro pieces for West Elm as wall art and pillows.
We like that you can choose several items from this collection for a room, with each featuring a different style silhouette, and have them work together based on graphic feel and color. The images come from original vintage photographs which Miller cuts and fills with solid tones. While recognizable as human and animal forms, the shapes don't provide too much information about their borrowed subjects, so the final prints are familiar without being overly personal.
See the entire Mike Miller collection at West Elm.






Shaw's Original Fir...
i am in the wrong business
wow, silhouettes are so fresh and new-thanks West Elm!, um didn't thomaspaul do this pillow 8 years ago? LOL
LOL @shark0517! Isn't this item the equivalent of using brown butcher paper behind a cut out of a person on black construction paper? West Elm does it every time. The overpriced, the unexciting, the too low to the ground, and a variation on all of these from season to season. When they have a sale, they have a sale, though!
I have to say, no matter how original and "new" they might (or might not) be, I kinda like them!
I just don't get this.
I like them, too. Antique or new with a twist, silhouettes are interesting to me. They're always classic.