Dark Decor: Luxe Accessories for Your Dark Side

So you’re kind of into a dark side? Skulls, skeletons, taxidermy, creepy dark side creatures like snakes, spiders, and ravens? But you also like luxurious glamour and sophistication. And you prefer classy over tacky. Maybe it is more about the humor, or maybe it is more about the intrigue. Any which way, if dark decor is your thing you have come to the right place! Read on to explore some of Love Happens’ favorite sinister, wacky and dark decor ideas to add luxurious splashes of mystery, intrigue, afterlife, and perhaps a few heebie-jeebies into your home style.
ART & ACCESSORIES FOR DARK DECOR LOVERS
Skull Art



Handcrafted skull figurine plated in 14-karat gold with butterflies, hand enameling and Swarovski® crystal embellishments by Jay Strongwater


Diesel Aluminum Bison Skull by Seletti


Skull and crossbones tic-tac-toe set from Neiman Marcus
Home Decor Tips – How to Decorate Your Halloween Party
The Art of the Creepy Creature
Avian


A beautiful still life of a Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) and a wild Peafowl (Pavo cristatus). This composition created by Darwin, Sinke & von Tongeren is inspired by the famous work of 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Weenix.
Black Cats!

Reptiles & Insects

A baroque black polyresin 5 arm candle holder designed by Selab for Seletti


Rhinoceros Beetle Figurine
A porcelain and metal creation inspired by one of the fascinating creatures in nature. Part of the Awesome Insects Collection by Lladro.


Herend Tarantula
Herend porcelain from Hungary, handmade and handpainted with 24K gold accents from Scully & Scully

Handcarved wood finished in gold leaf


London exhibit at Jamb

Bones & Body Parts



Coffee Table Books for Dark Side Decor

“Taxidermy has served the cause of science, satisfied curiosity or ego, provided decoration, been produced to shock, educate, enthrall or entertain, suffered scorn and derision, been overlaid with artistic pretension and sometimes, even received acclaim! [This book] is a visual record of some of its most intriguing achievements.”
Available from DMW.NU

A haunting book filled with anonymous Halloween photographs from c.1875–1955
FURNITURE & WALL ART FOR YOUR DARK (OR HUMOROUS!) SIDE


Available on Etsy

Shown here at Paul Insect’s ‘Poison’ show, Kings Cross, London, September 2008
The central room at the show featured this skeleton on all fours with stiletto heels and Playboy cufflinks supporting a glass top.


Part of the Emergence Collection, 2011, Photo by James Field, Courtesy ACSA
Words by Anna Beck Bimba