Fashionable Christmas Trees Are Popping Up Everywhere

Gaudy, tacky, kitsch? At any other time of year, a wildly decorated, brightly lit tree would be considered all of the aforementioned, but in December, taste is defined by a totally different set of parameters. Childhood joy and festive spirit take over, and the bauble-clad ferns are embraced across cities.

Luxury hotels have been the main culprit, often collaborating with artists and designers to display trees in their lobbies that put the four-foot one in your living room to shame. Here we have rounded up some of our favorites from recent years that by no means fit under the 'tacky' label. There are even a few that you can visit ahead of this Christmas.

Dishoom

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This year, London restaurant Dishoom is joining forces with Diet Paratha, a globally trusted voice for South Asian culture, to curate an artist-led celebration of the festive season. The event reimagines Christmas through the lens of South Asian talent and craftsmanship. Three talents were commissioned to bring their own heritage and aesthetic into the Dishoom world, through the creation of bespoke Christmas tree installations. Included in the lineup are luxury fashion house Kartik Research, designer Dhruv Bandil and stylist Neesha Tulsi Champaneria.

Susan Fang

 

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Also unveiled this year is a tree at The Londoner hotel, created in collaboration with fashion designer Susan Fang. Aptly titled "The Crystal Dream Christmas Tree," it is a breathtaking, all-white installation adorned with transparent spheres and 3D-printed flowers, a signature motif of the designer. Inspired by nature, light and ethereal forms, it transforms the hotel's lobby into a winter fantasy.

Burberry

 

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Claridge's hotel in London features a new designer collaboration each year for its tree, a highly anticipated unveiling. This year, Burberry's creative director, Daniel Lee, was chosen. The tree will be revealed on November 25 and is set to be covered in bows.

Karl Lagerfeld

 

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In 2017, Claridge's saw Karl Lagerfeld turn the concept of the Christmas tree upside down, literally. The lobby hosted a series of trees hanging from the ceiling with excessively frosty decorations in a wonderfully topsy-turvy outcome.

Tracey Emin

 

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The Connaught Hotel featured a 30-foot Norway tree designed by Tracey Emin in 2024. The British artist wrote a poem dedicated to the hotel using neon text, one of her signature mediums, to depict her words onto the tree. Beautiful and heartfelt, this has definitely got us in the festive spirit.

In other news, check out this Wes Anderson retrospective exhibition in London.

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