Designer Christmas Trees by John Galliano and Tacita Dean
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‘Tis the season and with said season comes Christmas trees. As we’ve done very little Christmas tree reporting thus far (except telling you to buy Thomas Kinkade‘s pop-up tree for all your immediate tree needs), we thought we’d use this post to do just that, with two tree stories, both set in the mother of all Christmas-y cities, London.
First up, we turn to the Claridge hotel, who hired Christian Dior‘s creative director, John Galliano, to design a holiday tree for their lobby. The hotel is known for their elaborate Christmas displays, but this is the first time they’ve farmed out the design. And judging by what Galliano turned in, they’ll either keep hiring out from now on or never, ever try something like this again. The designer’s tree looks nothing like your standard green pine, but instead is an eerily-lit, vaguely cartoonish collection of empty branches, touches of blue paint, and a carved snow leopard. It’s beautiful, for sure, but decidedly un-Christmas-y.
On the exact other end of the spectrum, at the Tate Britian, where people have come to expect an annual dose of challenge from the museum’s tree, you get a bunch of niceness. This year’s tree is purely a beautiful, festive, heartwarming batch of Christmas, designed by artist Tacita Dean. Titled, “Weihnachtsbaum,” the tree features yellow candles and an antique tree top decoration from Germany. It feels like a nice, warm gesture from the Tate, all the more so coming so close to the equally warm emotions brought on by Richard Wright‘s recent Turner Prize win. But, of course, there’s underlying Art to Dean’s work too:
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