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15th December 2022

It's time for a Christmas tree round-up. Normally we would post the Tate Gallery tree, but they don't seem to have one this year. In fact, the last one we can find is from 2016, an upside down tree from Shirazeh Houshiary.


So instead here are three trees from around Europe. First up is a 20-metre spruce pine donated to the City of Brussels by its owners in Raeren, in the province of Liège, decorated with 600 champagne-coloured baubles and 2 km of LED light garlands.


Closer to home, St Pancras always puts on a great display for arriving travellers, sometimes the tree is non-traditional - and this year it's a fantastical collection of hand-drawn London buildings, to raise money for City-Scape. Standing at 33ft tall the design shows familiar silhouettes of the London skyline spread across over 80 terraced houses, department stores, concert venues and more! It took over 60 hours to hand draw all the elements.


And finally our new favourite tree, at Waterloo - it's covered in GIANT HARIBO. Sorry there are none to eat.



BONUS BEATS: the V&A have gone for a fashion-shaped tree this year. Created by Sohee Park, the Korean fashion designer known as Miss Sohee, this year's tree “reimagines” the traditional Christmas conifer as an 11ft white couture gown, featuring a crepe de chine inner and silk chiffon cape embellished with Swarovski crystals.



If you'd like to see a gallery of 23 years of Tate Christmas trees, just click on the link here.



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