The Connaught hotel in Mayfair hosts an outdoor Christmas tree decorated and designed by an artist every year for the past decade now. This year, the tree has been designed by Urs Fischer, an artist born in Switzerland. The Nordmann Fir tree from Denmark is decorated with illuminated baubles with a variety of different faces (ages, genders, races), and these faces act as a community of joy to celebrate the festive season. The design was inspired by the artist's work "Installation People".
Previous Connaught Christmas trees that I covered on my blog are below:
- 2024 Conrad Shawcross
- 2023 Rachel Whitbread
- 2022 Suzy Murphy
- 2021 Anne Morris and Idris Khan
- 2020 (Cancelled)
- 2019 Sean Scully
- 2018 Michael Craig-Martin
- 2017 Tracey Emin
- 2016 Damien Hirst
- 2015 Antony Gormley
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