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Here’s Our Favorite Mushroom Decor — and How to Use It in Your Home

By: Lauren Oster

May 18, 2023

Mushroom motifs are sprouting up all over the design landscape, and we’ve foraged finds to suit every style. Traditional illustrations, psychedelic prints, playful new takes — we’ve picked ‘em all and gathered some next-level ‘shrooms to serve up aesthetic umami.

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The open plan living room is grounded by a refined color palette of navy blue, black and pops of red. Over the sofa, a painting of a lion mane’s mushroom adds a modern, rustic touch to the living area. The mushroom silhouette continues with two bright Verner Panton Flowerpot Lamps. The table lamps bring a 1960s vibe into this modern living room.

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Photo: Chinasa Cooper

Fungi Are Fashionable, and the Trend Is Growing

Mushrooms and the visual arts have a very, very long history: A cave in Algeria features a 9,000-year-old painting of a shaman with a fistful of fungi. The design world's most recent love affair with the motif began around 2020 and shows no signs of growing stale; in fact, mushrooms are expanding their territory in interiors of all kinds.

Case in point? This chic living room in Hudson, New York, which features a pair of ‘shroomlike, cherry-red Verner Panton Flowerpot lamps and a graphic contemporary painting of a lion’s head mushroom. What fungal finery could pop up at your place? Check out our mood-board slash shopping-list and see.

This statement making Yves Delorme pillow with metallic threads is patterned with various mushroom shapes. Photo By: Dan Piassick

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Photo: Photo Courtesy: Dan Piassick

Old-School Embroidery

With intricate stitching and gleaming metallic thread, this Yves Delorme mushroom pillow is a suitable starter piece for someone looking to dip their toe in the Victorian end of the trend, without tipping all the way over into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

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Photo: Garnet Hill

Stylized Shrooms Cozy Up a Contemporary Bed

The playful print on this cotton-percale duvet and shams pairs well with other patterns — go ahead, mix it with pastel stripes or plaids! — and offers a more modern and graphic take on woodland chic.

BUY IT: Garnet Hill, $44-$199

Large, White Butler's Pantry With Gallery Wall of Framed Mushroom Art

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Vintage Mushrooms Flavor a Gallery Wall

More is unquestionably more in this luxe and eclectic butler’s pantry, where a massive grid of standard frames presents colorful specimens of all kinds. (They just happen to complement the jewel-toned midcentury glassware perched on the marble countertop.) A little bit culinary and a little bit woodsy, fungi illustrations like these are a savory and unexpected alternative to flowers or foods in a similar display.