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.
In today's Top 10 presented the most expensive christmas trees. For the rich and famous, owning such a tree becomes one of the ways to demonstrate their own financial capabilities.
10. Christmas tree Hong Kong Swarovski Crystal
A huge tree 27 meters high is decorated with 40 thousand Swarovski crystals. The spruce gains special charm in the dark when the LED backlight turns on. Unfortunately, the price of the Swarovski Crystal Christmas tree established in Hong Kong has remained unknown.
9. Christmas tree with LED backlight from Vermont ($ 850)
A tree 2.5 meters high can be assembled in 5 minutes. It is noteworthy that the branches of the tree straighten themselves, because the design incorporates a special mechanism of "memorization".
8. Christmas tree with LED backlight from Fraser ($ 1700)
The Christmas 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 Christmas tree from Fraser is 3 meters, so it is often purchased for installation in the open air.
7. Cognac tree from Sofitel London St. James ($ 55 thousand)
This expensive Christmas tree is very difficult to call traditional. A thin metal frame is decorated with 200 small bottles of French cognac. The cost of the Christmas tree consists of the price of an elite drink and handmade gold-plated bottles.
6. Golden Christmas tree from Steve Quick Jewelers ($ 500 thousand)
A Chicago jeweler created several Christmas trees made of pure gold for sale as part of a charity marathon in support of cancer patients. Each Christmas tree is decorated with diamonds and a platinum star.
5. Soo Kee Diamond Tree ($ 1 Million)
Singapore jewelry house did not stint on the creation of a six-meter tree made of silver and decorated with diamonds. The decor took about 22 thousand stones with a total weight of 913 carats.
4. Christmas tree in Washington opposite 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 selected in 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. Christmas tree from flowers from the Takashimaya retail chain ($ 1.8 million)
In 2007, a Christmas tree appeared on sale in the Japanese Takashimaya chain, created in collaboration with the French flower boutique Claude Quincaud. The tree was not very tall, 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. Golden tree from Ginza Tanaka ($ 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, the whole world was surprised by using 40 kg of yellow metal to create a Christmas tree resembling a multi-tier carousel.
1. Christmas tree with diamonds at the Emirate’s Palace Hotel ($ 11.4 million)
In the UAE capital in 2010, a Christmas tree appeared, decorated with gold, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds. Given 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 hall of the world's most expensive Emirate’s Palace hotel.
