The Wellness Skull. Photo: Artnet

Frighten away the gobelins, witches, and monsters from your indoor or outdoor spaces this Halloween, as these bewitching designs are a fright for sore eyes.

Bathing in Creepy
Joep van Lieshout’s Wellness Skull is a heady spa-like experience chamber. The neck of the skull houses a bath while the head contains a sauna. When operational, hot steam pears out of the eye sockets.

Bewitching bath house inside the Wellness Skull. Photo: Stephan Wyckoff,

Photo: Stephan Wyckoff,

Vampire’s Table
Worry not, artist John Nouanesing’s bloody thing just is just a concept. But if nothing else, it’s a transfusion of creepy cool.

Really Getting Inside One’s Head
Artist van Lieshout is really into skulls. His Sensory Deprivation Skull was inspired by skull studies the artist did in the late nineties. The willing visitor–er–heads over and enters the minimal space to escape from the sensory mind clutter of modern life.

Skull Bustop
Intended to symbolize the beginning and end of life and the process of learning, van Lieshout created Alfa & Omega, two bus stops–one in the shape of an egg, placed at the beginning of a school bus route, and the other, a skull, situated at the end of the route.

Dying for a Seat
From the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), the New French Domestic Landscape exhibition at last spring’s Milan Design Furniture Fair, The Plastic Skull Chair by French design studio Pool, is a chair to remember, that is, to remember that you will die–as the name assigned to it states (“Souviens toi que tu vas mourir.”)

Esprit de Corpse
This leather and polyurethane foam stool is the brain child of designers at the Vanitas Collection.

And the morbid fascination continues with Vanitas’s the skull chairs: