You might have hauled a fifty-kilogram tree in from the car, cheated death and the park ranger when felling it in its natural habitat and breathed in enough dust when removing the ornaments from the cupboard to rival a James Hardie asbestos plaintiff, but I’m afraid that the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Christmas tree puts your humble fir to shame.

Planted in the foyer of the London establishment, the four-metre high “tree” was designed by Studio Roso especially for the museum. Comprising 3.3 metres of elastic cord, its 1,500 strands are handmade and knotted to make an ornamental outline of the traditional Christmas tree. Not bad for three weeks’ work. Who needs fairy lights?

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