Very soon, an elegant Christmas tree will decorate every home. But not everyone is satisfied with the banal traditional tree. Fashion designers, jewelers and stylists are working on creating unique trees, the price of which is far from affordable for everyone.
Today's Top 10 includes the most expensive Christmas trees... For the rich and famous, the possession of such a tree becomes one of the ways to demonstrate their own financial capabilities.
10. Christmas tree Hong Kong Swarovski Crystal
A huge tree with a height of 27 meters is decorated with 40 thousand Swarovski crystals. The spruce gets its special charm in the dark, when the LED backlighting turns on. Unfortunately, the price of the Swarovski Crystal Christmas tree installed in Hong Kong remained unknown.
9. Vermont LED Lighted Christmas Tree ($ 850)
A tree with a height of 2.5 meters can be harvested in 5 minutes. It is noteworthy that the branches of the Christmas tree straighten out on their own, because a special “memorizing” mechanism is incorporated into the design.
8. Fraser LED Christmas Tree ($ 1,700)
The tree is decorated with 1350 multi-colored mini-bulbs, each of which can be removed without affecting the functioning of the entire structure. The height of the Fraser Christmas tree is 3 meters, so it is more often purchased for outdoor installation.
7. Cognac tree from Sofitel London St. James ($ 55,000)
This expensive Christmas tree can hardly be called traditional. A thin metal frame is decorated with 200 small bottles of French cognac. The cost of the Christmas tree consists of both the price of an elite drink and handmade gilded bottles.
6. Gold Christmas tree from Steve Quick Jewelers ($ 500 thousand)
A Chicago jeweler created several Christmas trees of pure gold at once for sale as part of a charity marathon in support of cancer patients. Each tree is adorned with diamonds and a platinum star.
5. Soo Kee Diamond Tree ($ 1 million)
The Singapore jewelery house did not skimp on the creation of a six-meter tree made of silver and adorned with diamonds. The decor took about 22 thousand stones with a total weight of 913 carats.
4. Christmas tree in Washington in front of the Capitol ($ 1 million)
Since 1964, the American capital has been decorated with one of the most expensive Christmas trees in the world. A living tree is picked from one of the national parks and then transported to the installation site. The cost of transportation, decoration and lighting together forms an amount of about $ 1 million.
3. A tree made of flowers from the Takashimaya retail chain ($ 1.8 million)
In 2007, the Japanese Takashimaya chain launched a Christmas tree, created in collaboration with the French flower boutique Claude Quincaud. The tree did not differ in particular height, but consisted of hundreds of dried roses, the petals of which were decorated with 400 diamonds with a total weight of about 100 carats.
2.Ginza Tanaka's Golden Christmas Tree ($ 4.2 million)
The Japanese jeweler is famous for his golden Christmas-themed fantasies. So, in 2007, he created a golden Santa Claus weighing 20 kg. A year later, he surprised the whole world by using 40 kg of yellow metal to create a Christmas tree resembling a multi-tiered carousel.
1.Christmas tree with diamonds at the Emirate's Palace ($ 11.4 million)
A Christmas tree appeared in the capital of the UAE in 2010, decorated with gold, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds. Considering that the height of the Christmas tree was 12 meters, it becomes clear that a lot of jewelry was required to decorate it. Naturally, the world's most expensive Christmas tree stood in the lobby of the world's most expensive hotel, Emirate's Palace.