If you want to know what is going to be ‘in’ this year go to a trade show and see the common thread that runs through all the showrooms, all the items, all the designs. Sometimes it’s a color, sometimes it’s a theme, sometimes it’s a style.

This year it’s owls.

We just spent four days at Americasmart in Atlanta doing the buying for 2012 and we saw owls all over the place, on everything and made into anything. They were everywhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Individually,

 

 

 

 

 

and en masse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facing forward,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and turned sideways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made of wood,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

made of stone,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and made of glass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fluttering on flags,

 

 

 

 

 

 

and standing rigidly still.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plain and simple,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and psychadelic.

 

Not wanting to be left off the owl bandwagon we ordered these three.

   

 

 

 

 

Vinyl wallets with an owl pair on them, bamboo iPhone cases with an image of an owl, and tiny owl silhouettes made of two simple pieces of wood that slot together. They come in boxes of twelve and are just like the penguins we had last year. Adorable.

Keep your big round eyes wide open for these at id in Provincetown and on swell247.com this spring.