Wow! Never thought I would see furniture on here with faux JUVENILE animal fur.

That's gross. I don't even want to look at it, let alone use it.

Creepy.

i'm going to be hated for this comment but just a thought:

not sure why it's any creepier than regular taxidermy? or faux taxidermy? it's an odd moral boundary that many people have to distinguish between 'adult' animal skins and 'baby' animal skins - it didn't end well for the animal either way really.

personally, i'm not really into this style for my own home, but i can see how it might fit in a cabin theme or actual cabin...

I find the first one creepy because it's so stylized that it looks like a cute little cartoon... just one that's been beheaded.

#6 is actually quite lovely and sculptural, but the last one will haunt my dreams. It's like a deer version of Frank from Donnie Darko.

@ BRIE: normally I would have nothing against adult deer skin because there is a licensed buck and doe hunting season every year in most US states, so I'm pretty confident about where those skins came from. However, there is no season for bambi in the US- spots mean you don't shoot it. I understand none of these products are produced in the US, but the question still remains: where the hell are these skins coming from?? Is there really a market for baby deer meat in Japan that would create a glut of skins for repurposing?

I'm with most of you - no thanks on the Bambi-hide. That said, the two sculptural wood pieces made me smile, and immediately evoked that moment in the movie...not sure why I'd need a canted table, but, still...

@BRIE Maybe people are freaked out by baby animal skins because they are so much more helpless - like baby seals, you just walk over and whack them. An adult has more of a chance of getting away. Plus, evolution gave us parenting instincts so we would protect our babies which many people apply to other species (ever seen a woman with a tiny dog she treats like a baby? and ever wondered why so many tiny dog breeds have huge eyes and flat noses? Makes them look like a puppy even when they are grown). That's where that "odd moral boundary" comes from.
I'm less freaked out by the spots on the hide than by the fact that they made those chairs look like weird headless Bambis. Imagine coming across No. 7 in the dark. YIKES.
#6 is very pretty, I wouldn't mind that one.

All this talk about the animals. What about the trees?!... ... (sarcasm off)

We can argue about where to draw the line all day.

@username26 - I eat meat. In fact, I hunt to obtain most of it. But, I, like most people including hunters, have a problem with killing 'baby' anything.

OK, hate them all. They remind me of the "Toy Story" monster toys!

I also hate all taxidermy, including fake: plastic heads, carved heads, stuffed toy type heads -- they all imply dead animals on the wall, and to me that's just crass. (I have less problem with faux fur blankets and the like, maybe because I know it is actually merely a woven textile similar to longer pile velvet -- but I'm not so fond of the animal skin prints, just the plain ones...)

And I do eat meat (mostly chicken and fish), but often consider going vegan.

I think the issue, for me, is limiting cruelty in the world. Trophy animals are not how to live gently on the earth. It's a position I know many people don't agree with me about, but I wonder if they don't analyze it deeply. I hope most people have given up telling mean-spirited politically incorrect jokes about people of different ethnicities or mental abilities. Even if the jokes are "funny" they foster an environment of bigotry and hostility, and trophy animals do something similar. They make us overlook the LIFE that has been destroyed for the sake of human desires. Even the fakes seem desensitizing to me.

Anyhow, the Bambi examples aren't so much even in the faux taxidermy space as they are just kind of monster distortions of the natural form. (Ugly.)

That's my opinion and I'll stick to it!! ;^)

I stand w/SHERRYBINNH on this one. I don't even like the 'hand hooks' that you can purchase to hang your towels on. Not a fan of the huge hand as a chair either. Human or animal; it's just creepy to me.

@SherryBinNH Do you know if the meat you eat is 'slaughtered' humanely? It would be a shame to promote such a morally high road and yet not walk down it.

Repugnant.

Are there really adults out there with Bambi complexes?

Yeeeahhh....no. Using the skin of a baby animal to make a mock up cutesy version of one that's also a stool? Not cute, not clever and really not very nice.

#6 is hilarious. Too bad it looks really uncomfortable.

More than likely the hides didn't come from "cute widdle baby Bambis". Some deer species retain their spots through adulthood, like sika and axis deer.. I happen to own an adult axis deer hide, and it looks exactly like the hides used in some of these pieces.

I rather like the fourth one. I'm not opposed to taxidermy or hides, and was in fact toying with making my own furniture piece using my previously mentioned hide.

I know this may not be comforting to AT readers, but most white tail deer do retain their speckles for quite awhile beyond fawn stage- they're still juveniles of course, but they aren't at the "helpless baby" stage any more, and size-wise, aren't that far off of the adults in the group.

I hate them too! Especially the ones with deerskin. Use fake fur at least.
As a Japanese,, I'm so sad and so ashamed that most of all are made by Japanese. :-(

Tacky. Hideous.

I can't imagine giving this to a child --look honey, they made a chair out of Bambi ! I don't know anyone who would like this.

or : they made a chair out of Bambi's mother