Decorate your home with deer!
Buck junior recycled cardboard deer
There’s something beautifully familiar about the silhouette of a deer head. Not that I’m trying to stereotype Canadians as a bunch of beer-drinking, hockey-loving, deer-hunting types, but still, even for us city dwellers, the trend towards faux taxidermy and all things deer and moose-related strikes a comfortable note. It’s that ironic nod to a symbol that, while it may actually have nothing to do with our lives, hits an emotional chord deep down. Or maybe that’s just too much thought put into something that’s just kind of fun and kooky.
The point being that as of late, deer heads, antlers and animal silhouettes have been popping up all over the place. It’s not a new trend – I remember seeing things being made by forward thinking artists like Tristan Zimmermann of Science and Sons as far back as six years ago (has it really been that long!), but when I walk into West Elm in downtown Toronto and see a whole wall of three dimensional cardboard deer and rhino heads mounted on paper plaques, I know the trend is big! And I love it!
I spent a little time rounding up an assortment of trophy-types, in case you decide you just must have a Rudolph of your very own hanging above your fireplace this season.
$12, Westelm.com.
Faux fauna by Felt Factory
$50-$80, at the One of a Kind Christmas Show & Sale in Toronto until December 5, then in Montreal at Puces Pop later in December.
