Keep An Eye Out For This Food-Inspired Vintage Pattern You're Bound To See Everywhere In 2025

While florals are always famously groundbreaking for spring, there are some other on-the-nose looks that can stay fresh year round. We're talking, of course, about produce, and not the kinds of fruits and veggies you can grow indoors. Depictions of fruits and vegetables have been recorded for time immemorial, including periods known as the Renaissance and "tomato girl summer." Edible plants have popped up elsewhere in pop culture set dressing over the decades, as well, including on the Simpsons' understated corn-on-the-cob curtains, and in Willy Wonka's maximalist orange-, pineapple-, plum-, banana-, and strawberry-flavored edible wallpaper. Daintier botanical illustrations have also long factored into decor, as have literal spice racks.

While gastronomy-inspired details like fake fruit bowls, artificial pepper strings, and all of the above are nothing new, their present prevalence is also not just in your imagination. Farm and garden items have leapt out of the soil and into design periodical pages and cookware retailers more and more. Credit public interest in reality cooking shows and scripted dramas like "The Bear," or just the inevitable return to a vintage that actually dates back to several different centuries. Either way, this is the juiciest trend of the moment.

Although it does have all of that historical precedent, it's unlikely that fruit and veggie prints, ceramics, and textiles are going to be entered into the classic decor canon that stands the test of time now or in the future. But they can still be enjoyed with a little more temporal appreciation. So, rather than wallpapering an entire room in something like a lemon motif, you might want to bring subtler accoutrements into your space.

Areas related to cooking, eating, and the outdoors are all particularly conducive to a produce design treatment. Fun, fruit-printed tea towels, like these kitchen towels from Bencailor, are an affordable, low-commitment addition to the kitchen, for example. Displaying fruit, even in this way, might just improve your kitchen's feng shui. Updated artificial fruit, like marble pieces from Deco 79, will also look sleeker on a dining room table than the old wax variety ever did. And an olive branch theme, via photography or printed on things like throw pillows, is cute in a solarium or on a sunny, screened patio. Once the trend has dried up, you can easily pack all of these items away until produce decor season blooms once more.