A Trick or Treat for the Eyes: Candy-Inspired Design

This Halloween, we’re falling for the treats, not the tricks. Instead of the gothic and macabre, this year’s selection turns toward the color, gloss, and joy inspired by candy. The collection highlights pieces that share the irresistible appeal of sweets: smooth surfaces, rounded forms, and bright, saturated colors. Each design expresses indulgence through material, form, and finish, evoking the sensory, nostalgic joy of candy.

Good Enough to Eat

The Candy Coffee Tables by Luis Gimeno Design feels like it could melt under the light. Its glossy, resin surface and fluid shape recall the smoothness of hard candy, the kind you can almost taste on sight. Color seems suspended inside the form, deep and rich, as if poured rather than built. It turns material into flavor, making sight and touch feel nearly interchangeable.

The Resin Mirrors by Courtney Kinnare carry that same sensory pull. Layers of tinted resin shift like syrup over mirrored glass, changing color as the light moves across them. Each glance feels slightly different, cooler in morning light and warmer at dusk. They invite the same kind of attention as sweets in a jar: you keep looking, knowing you shouldn’t touch, but wanting to anyway.

Sugar, Glass, and Everything Nice

Some designers take a more literal approach, in fact Anna Jožová uses candy as a medium for her Lollipop Vase. Each handblown Murano glass form is lined from the inside with real Czech rock lollipops, carefully arranged before being sealed in crystal. The process takes days, and no two vases are ever the same. The result is equal parts humor and precision: a vase that looks good enough to taste.

The Candy Series by Studio Berg brings that same nostalgia into a wider palette of side table, stools, coffee tables and mirrors. Inspired by sweet childhood memories, these pieces recall the brightness and excitement of a candy shop, the glossy stripes of candy canes, the roundness of lollipops, the swirl of color seen through glass jars.

Blown, Spun, and Sweetened

Both glassblowing and candy making depend on heat, timing, and control. Molten material gets stretched, inflated, and cooled at the exact moment to hold its shape. The Bubble-Lights by Balzer Balzer Studio reflects this process through bubbling glass forms evoking irresistible hard candies candies. The stainless steel frame gives the piece structure, capturing movement before the glass sets.

Bubble Pendants and cups by Sticky Glass carry the same energy. Their bright colors and inflated shapes recall the gloss and glow of sweets lined up in a shop window. Bubble Cups share this appeal: smooth and tactile with round forms designed to be held. These works echo the process of candy making into glass, where color and form feel equally sweet.

Inside the Candy Shop

A candy shop overwhelms you in the best way. It’s as if you’re standing inside a kaleidoscope, surrounded by color that moves and glows with every shift of light. František Jungvirt’s colorful vases capture that same sense of immersion. Their glass surfaces feel almost liquid, filled with layered color that changes from one moment to the next.

The TRN Lamps by Pani Jurek bring that abundance into ceramic. Their rounded forms and glossy finishes look like pieces from a pick-and-mix counter, each one different yet part of the same joyful palette. The colors play off one another, warm against cool, bright against muted, creating a sense of playful spontaneity. Each pendant lamp can be customized in endless combinations, just like choosing your favorites from a row of candies.

The Sweet Side of the Season

Halloween usually leans toward darkness, mystery, and the thrill of the uncanny. This year we are going lighter. These pieces celebrate the sweet side of the season, where color replaces shadow and curiosity replaces fear. Each design connects through a shared sense of play—through the shine of glass, the pull of gloss, or the memory of candy chosen by hand. In the end, design, like candy, is about pleasure. Both rely on instinct and appetite, on that moment of wanting something because it looks too good to resist. This collection captures that feeling and holds it still, offering treats for the eyes instead of the tongue.