A shiver runs up the spine of any interiors obsessive: plastic pumpkins. Synthetic spiderwebs snagged in the boxwoods. Animatronic witches cackling on the porch. But Halloween decor really doesn’t need to try so hard. A deserted Victorian manor is unsettling enough on its own and, as we can hopefully all agree, makes for a far chicer reference point.
Blacked-out fringed table lamps and silver bat-motif wall mirrors could set the scene in the entryway. To the left, a fleet of etched coupes holding signature oxblood cocktails beside bowls of ‘finger food.’ To the right, West Elm’s latest Frankenstein-meets-Picasso sculptural experiment, where pairs of eyeballs watch from pedestal bowls, trinket trays listen with oversized ears, and a giant surrealist nose of a vase takes a whiff of a few aging florals.
From lace runners that could’ve walked an Ann Demulemeester runway to macabre à la MacKenzie-Childs, if I were hosting Halloween for a house full of design snobs, these are the freakishly fierce finds that’d make the cut.
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