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#100 Neapolitan Baroque Christmas Tree at the Met

"The Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche has been displayed each year since 1957 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from late November to early January. The annual candlelit spruce tree, adorned with angels and surrounded by a lively 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scene, is a tradition inaugurated by collector and museum patron Loretta Hines Howard....who began collecting crèche figures in 1925 ."

via keith maquire at flickr and the virtual tour of the tree at about.com

#99 Tiny Titanium Christmas Tree

Five inches wide by five inches tall, the "tree" was grown in a vacuum chamber and consists of a three-dimensional latticeword structure of titanium-alloy powder, shaped by controlled melting through the agency of an electron beam.

from the Southern Methodist University Lyle School of Engineering [source]

#98 Neon Christmas Tree

by christinelam via flickr

#97 Place Vendome Christmas Tree circa 2004

#96 Place Vendome Christmas tree circa. 1950

by Yvonne Jean Haffen, via the archives of the Ministry of Culture for France

#95 Tissue paper Christmas Tree

One last retro festive post from curly-wurly...

#94 The Snow Queen's Dress Christmas Tree

also Les Sapins de Noël des Créateurs...

#93 Spaghetti Christmas Tree

Complete with forks, from a past year of Les Sapins de Noël des Créateurs

#92 Castelbajac Christmas Tree

by Jean-Charles Castelbajac, also from Les Sapins de Noël des Créateurs

#91 Gaultier Christmas Tree

also from Les Sapins de Noël des Créateurs

#90 Gucci Christmas Tree

from the annual "Les Sapins de Noël des Créateurs" charity auction to benefit the Sol En Si charity organization, which helps children and families living with AIDS in Paris.

#89 Skateboard Christmas Tree

#88 Museum of Natural History Origami Christmas Tree

The American Museum of Natural History, New York has been decorating a Christmas tree entirely in themed origami every year for over 30 years. “The theme of this year’s tree is Folding the Museum, featuring colorful paper ornaments representing denizens of the habitat dioramas, permanent halls, and special exhibitions.” This year’s tree is 13 feet tall and has about 500 origami decorations.

#87 World's Smallest Christmas tree

"Complete with presents and little girl, the artwork measures just a fraction of a millimetre in size and is covered in crushed diamonds to give the effect of lighting.

The tree, made from tiny fragments of nylon was created by Birmingham sculptor Willard Wigan who carved the little figure from a flake of cable tie.

Mr Wigan then painted his Christmas scene with a hair from a dead fly as he peered through a microscope.

The incredible work of art is part of a touring exhibition of the artist's "micro sculptures", now showing in Nottingham.
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Mr Wigan said: "I have to work between heart beats. Just the movement of my pulse can destroy the work. "I have to hold my breath while I work so I don't inhale them. It can take weeks and weeks to make just one piece at times because I work so slowly.

"It's the smallest things that matter. Perhaps that is something to ponder during Christmas."

via the telegraph

#86 Community Garden Christmas Tree

Love the corbels/stand. via lost city

#85 Silent Film Star Harold Lloyd's Christmas Tree

"Three large Douglas firs...would be wired together to make one enormous, fantastic Christmas tree. It sat at the end of the garden room rising 20 feet in the air. It was 9 feet wide and almost 30 feet around.

It took from Thanksgiving until Christmas to decorate the tree. Over the years, my grandfather had collected thousands of ornaments from all over the world. The tree held one-of-a-kind rare ornaments valued in the hundreds of dollars when they were first purchased in the `30’s and `40’s. The tree also held homemade ones that Harold received from his charity work.

One year we counted over 5,000 ornaments hanging from the tree and we still had enough left over to decorate 3 more trees just as big! Every year the tree grew larger to hold more ornaments; then one year it became a permanent fixture in our home. It was simply too large, too decorated and too engineered to disassemble. So we had it fireproofed and celebrated Christmas every day of the year!"

Read more of the the remembrances of Harold Lloyd's Christmas tree by his grandaughter at haroldlloyd.com

#84 Hubcap Christmas Tree

by iburiedpaul via flickr

#83 Just the Lights Christmas Tree

Just the lights, ma'am, strung through an embroidery hoop hung from a hook in the ceiling. Very recession friendly. Instructions at thingmababy

#82 Computer Hard Drive Christmas Tree

utilizing 70 SCSI hard drives, via make

#81 OLED Christmas Tree

15 feet of flexible organic (no, not like gardening, like chemistry) LED units, by the boffins at GE [source]

#80 Neon light Christmas tree

by Gareth Pugh for Topshop's Oxford Circus location. [source]

#79 Sugar Stick Christmas Tree

at a Bangkok hotel, made from 38,900 sugar sticks. [source]

#78 Pedal-powered, recycled Christmas Tree

The 2008 tree at the Tate is by artists Bob and Roberta Smith, "made of recycled materials,including sandwich boards, tape, signs and an oil drum. Eight bicycles of various sizes have been fixed to stands around the trunk, each holding a generator that is connected to a set of light bulbs that decorate the tree. When happy children and chuckling adults hop on the bikes and pedal hard, the lights go on."

via treehugger

#77 Artist's Christmas tree - Catherine Yass

An undecorated fir tree, bisected by a thin blue beam of neon light. The 2000 tree at the Tate.

#76 Artist's Christmas tree - Boyd Webb

also from the Tate

#75 Artist's Christmas Tree - Yinka Shonibare

made of strips of shredded batik, see a close-up at the Tate Britain site.

#74 Artist's Christmas Tree - Shirazeh Houshiary

More from the Tate Britain...

#73 Artist's Christmas Tree - Tim Head

The Tate Britain comissions a Christmas tree each year...this one, intended to comment on how the tree's status as a natural object has been subverted, is by artist Tim Head.

#72 Water bottle Christmas Tree

canadian mineral glass water bottles; over 300 bottles and 4 people working two days to assemble...via designboom

#71 Enchanted Forest Christmas Tree

at a Parisian department store...

#70 Stacking Toy Christmas Tree

from the gifts guide at Cookie magazine vis swissmiss

#69 Japanese star Christmas trees

by Marc Brette via flickr

#68 Recycled Christmas Tree Lamps

by http://www.cinqcinqdesigners.com/, made from used Christmas trees. Clever!

#67 Navy Christmas Tree

the USS San Diego off the coast of Guaymas, Mexico in 1915. [source]

Let me just say as an aside here that if anyone has a older loved one who is also a navy veteran, researching what happened to the ship they served on and presenting it to them makes a wonderful Christmas gift. My aunt did this for my dear grandpa (who served in the Pacific in WWII), and he looked at it nearly daily until he died.

#66 Parade Entry Christmas Tree

I hope she won... [source]

#65 Ice Sculpture Christmas tree

"Bill snaked a garden hose to the top of his swing set and suspended the spray nozzle above his decomissioned Christmas tree. For 12 hours in last week's below freezing cold, he misted water over the tree, which grew a shell of beautiful crystaline knobs and spikes. Bill left a string of colored lights in the tree, and with some jiggling after the ice formation, lit up the interior of the tree so that it could offer up some very pleasing nighttime close-ups."

via curiousLee

#64 Vietnam War Memorial Christmas Tree

"Vietnam veteran Dan Kirby of Arlington, Va., helps decorate a Christmas tree at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Dec. 21, 2006 in Washington, D.C."

Somehow, this doesn't disturb the memorial's elegance at all. Also via howstuffworks.

#63 Skyscraper Christmas tree

Tokyo hotel, via howstuffworks

#62 Christmas Tree for the birds

For the most festive cage in town...according to worldofbirds it is 'recommended for conures to small parrots'. (What's a conure???)

#61 Recession Buster Christmas Tree

via curbly

#60 LCD Christmas Tree

with coordinated animations, inGrand Central Station, NYC, this year, where you can register to win one of the TVs. via gizmodo.

#59 Cupcake Christmas Trees

from the holiday cupcake roundup at cupcakestakethecake

#58 Cereal Box Christmas Tree

Packaging on the tree rather than under it...via designboom

#57 Pillow Christmas Tree

[source]

#56 Kremlin Christmas Tree(s)

Love the echoing shapes.

#55 Hair Together Christmas Trees

These two belong together...the bus driver from last year's posts + a new pixie of Christmas frivoloity, who apparently usedtobeacat. Now, I suppose she usedtobeaChristmastree.

#54 1882 Patented Christmas Tree

feather Christmas tree patent from 1882

#52 Windowbox Christmas tree

by stefan via flickr

#51 Mad Polka Dots Christmas Tree

wall adhesive, 30euro. [source]

#50 Balloon Christmas Tree

[source]

#49 Pencil Craft Christmas Trees

instructions at [source].

#48 That Seventies Christmas Tree

Installed facing the Seine in Paris in 1970. By the sculptor Felix.

#47 TinTin Christmas tree

and his faithful sidekick, Snowy... [source]

#46 Purple People-Eater Christmas Tree

More retro fun from curly-wurly

#45 Broken Bulb Christmas tree

also curly-wurly

#43 Sixties Mod Christmas Trees

Amazing sixties craft trees from the blog curly-wurly...these are not to be believed. More to come!

#44 Q-tip Christmas tree

Bizarre Christmas crafts from the sixties...scanned from vintage craft books at the blog curly-wurly.

#42 Make-your-own Mini Tinsel Christmas Tree

This dollhouse tree was featured last year; its creator has posted instructions for making your own!

#41 Garden Glove Christmas tree

by dew drop via flickr, according to my notes, but I can no longer find the link...

#40 Tapdancing Christmas Trees

Oakland Holiday Parade, by gwen via flickr

#39 Church full of Christmas Trees

by jacquib via flickr

#38 1940s Christmas Tree

I want to time-travel back to this town. Just beautiful. [source]

#37 TinkerToy Christmas Tree

from the beautiful blog alittlehut

#36 Frosty Strawberry Christmas Tree

via 22butterfly

#35 Stripey, Eco-y Christmas tree

made from recycled wood, Shanghai aquarium [source]

#34 Anthurium Christmas tree

in Mauritius. [source]

#33 Candy ribbon Christmas tree

Only it's not. It's a perfume bottle from the 1940s and it's worth $500. [source]

#32 Golf ball Christmas tree

Apparently only Santa can make these. [source]

#31 Minimalist Christmas tree

origami instructions here

#30 House of cards Christmas tree

#29 Motherboard Christmas tree

with led lights, from Urban Outfitters

#28 Bookcase tree

Another bookcase tree installation, this time by Form UK, via iainclaridge

#27 Christmas tree building

I think this will stand as the biggest, most expensive Christmas tree ever....

Sir Norman Foster's design for a 1500-ft-tall, 27 million square foot, $4 billion dollar "Crystal Island," a "city within a building" with 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, a sports complex and more.

Proposed for Moscow, 2012, though in the current economic climate that seems doubtful.

[via gizmodo]