Urbanologie is branching out to bring you London's best dressed Christmas trees...
Claridge’s has unveiled their Christmas Tree 2018 in the hotel lobby designed by fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg. Entitled ‘The Tree of Love’ - the stunning six metre sculpture is coloured with a blue iridescent lustre and shimmer and is decorated with over 8,000 hand painted silver-leafed leaves, glass spheres, as well as 150 hand-blown glass hearts. The tree also plays host to six different silver-leafed abstract designed animals, from an owl representing knowledge and wisdom, a dove, peace and a horse strength and endurance. Diane has also included in her ‘Tree of Love’ important, symbolic words that have long been her mantra including Peace, Harmony, Knowledge, Truth, Freedom, Enlightenment and Wisdom. Pictured.
This festive season, aqua shard has collaborated with world-renowned multi-sensory design studio, Bompas & Parr for ‘Snowscape at aqua shard’, a stunning snowstorm whirling inside a modern grand sculpture, which stands tall inside aqua shard’s vast triple storey atrium overlooking the London skyline. Taking inspiration from an ornamental snow globe and The Shard’s angular shap - complete with swirling snow inside. Typical of Bompas & Parr’s inimitable whimsical style, you can also interact with Snowscape, by reaching inside the structure through a specially cut pocket in the side of the tree. Feel the breeze of the perpetual whirling snowstorm, whilst having the chance to win a Snowscape cocktail if you manage to catch an elusive golden snowflake.
Conceptual artist and painter Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE leant his vision to the Connaught Hotel's 2018 Christmas tree design on Mount Street in Mayfair. The Norway spruce has been adorned with rainbow-hued 12,000 lightbulbs, in Craig-Martin's distinctive bold colour palette - running in an intricately placed single strand from the very top to its base, so every inch glows. As you stand and watch, the colours continually change, shifting seamlessly in a carefully choreographed pattern.
St. Pancras International has partnered up with Tiffany & Co. to unveil its first scented Christmas tree in the heart of the station's Arcade. The magnificent 43-foot Tiffany tree has over 1,800 decorations and embodies the creativity of Tiffany & Co. The tree is decorated with 600 replica bottles of the jewellery houses's signature fragrance, 600 hand-crafted paper Iris flowers and 600 white and silver Tiffany blue baubles. The centrepiece, though, is a 17-foot robot made of Tiffany Blue Boxes propped atop of a ladder as it puts the finishing touches to the fir and based on the legendary Gene Moore’s 1960s imaginative window displays for Tiffany. The sparkling floral scent of Tiffany's Signature Eau de Parfum fragrance is diffused from the tree at key intervals each day, creating a unique immersive sensorial experience for holiday shoppers and travelers.
The House of Garrard, has designed this year’s Christmas tree at The Lanesborough hotel. The tree pays homage to the fine jewellery brand’s illustrious roots in the 18th century, when London’s theatre district was its home and opera masquerades were the height of fashion and and The Lanesborough was the country mansion of the 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. From the rise of the curtain to the flicker of candlelight over the theatres’ gilded decorations, many aspects of these occasions are brought out in the Garrard tree decorations. Decorations include regal red and blush pink fans, reminiscent of those carried by ladies at the theatre; elaborate masks, like those worn at a masquerade ball; and chandelier-esque glass ornaments.
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