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London’s Design Museum Debuts Tallest Cardboard Christmas Tree

by Ian Volner | Thursday, December 8, 2011

Bah-humbug! Tired of prickly pines and that clean, forest scent? Head down to the scenic banks of the Thames, because London’s Design Museum may have exactly the Tannenbaum for you: just in time for the holidays, this cardboard Christmas tree is nearly 20 feet tall, comprising upwards of 3,600 individually snipped and tailored pieces of the stiff stuff. The installation is a project of local firm Giles Miller Studio, whose eponymous principal is a former Designer in Residence at the museum.

So large is this festive, high-end evergreen (everbrown?), the museum has submitted it for consideration by the Guinness Book of World Records, contending that it is the World’s Tallest Cardboard Christmas Tree.

Miller—whose resume boasts a list of non-arbor themed projects for the likes of Stella McCartney and others—has also produced a line of miniature trees that patrons can take home, which run $50-$80 in the museum gift shop. The slender cardboard boughs of these little firs can be turned and twisted into whatever configuration suits one’s discriminating Yuletide taste. Merry cardboard Christmas!

See the tree on display at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, London, England, +44 020-7403-693.

Image courtesy of Design Museum.