Looking Up (at) Your Christmas Tree Skirt
I had a running joke for a while where i would constantly suggest ridiculously utilizing overhead space when considering living room rearrangements. My girlfriend would contemplate where to put the television with respect to the couch and my immediate suggestion would be to hang it from the ceiling. Whatever it was, hang it from the ceiling. Now i’m no interior decorator (obviously), but it seems more and more that i may have been onto something. Consider this upside-down Christmas Tree that Hammacher Schlemmer is selling. The tree, as they explain:
is inverted to ensure a smaller footprint for less-spacious areas, and allowing more room for the accumulation of presents underneath.
Um… Well, i certainly wouldn’t need it, but i’m sure there are people out there receiving so many gifts that they need an inverted Christmas tree just to make room for them all. (Also, from a marketing perspective, notice their use of “ensure a smaller footprint”, now who could they be trying to appeal to?)
My favorite part of that description is that, in the very first sentence, they explain that hanging a Christmas tree upside down is actually a 12th Century Central European tradition, rather than some post-modern, different-to-be-different trend. While i’m sure there is a tradition of the sort, i’m also pretty sure that if i had tried to hang my Christmas tree upside-down even last year, i would have been laughed off my block.
Favorite part number two would be the fact that those particular trees have sold out even though Christmas is 4 months away. That’s right, yule-trenders, if you wanted an invertred tree to send all those positive energies from the heavens directly into your giagantic gift pile, you would have had to get up pretty early in the morning, so to speak.
The picture:
Notice the chair*. See how the claw and ball foot of the chair are on the ground with the front leg (ankle, knee, knee return) spatially above the foot. Moving farther up and back, we have the back rail, splats and crest rail at the top. This is the natural position of a chair and is used as a reference to show just how upside-down the feature item in the image (the aforementioned holiday tree) really is.
*A chair:
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August 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Hmm, a chair diagram. That’s more information than I wanted to know.
My brother’s apartment in Manhattan is extremely small. You probably can’t even imagine how small it is. A hobbit might feel a little cramped. But, like everything else in New York, there is plenty of vertical space. So he literally had to think vertically when decorating that place. That’s why his bed is on the ceiling. No really.