Christmas, in lots of households, is a vacation of custom. Dinners and breakfasts are the identical every year. The identical songs and movies are loved. And the tree is all the time typically the identical. U.Okay. retailer Argos, although, is providing another for individuals who need to shake the vacations up—and it’s undoubtedly turning heads.
The chain’s Umbrella Tree is an eight-foot Tannenbaum that foregoes the normal triangle form and as a substitute seems extra like a Festivus pole with a spruce tip toupee.
The vast majority of the middle help pole is essentially empty, aside from a number of faux needles working to the anchor. On the prime is a cover of types, with a heavy focus of over 800 tree ideas. That permits homeowners to embellish the tree with hanging ornaments.
The tree is at the moment promoting for £157.50, which is about $200 in U.S. {dollars}.
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The distinctive look of the tree has, unsurprisingly, introduced out the humorous individuals on the Web, which has meant Argos has needed to aim hold the questions on the product’s web page. Among the many now-removed questions individuals requested had been “Where is the rest of it? You are joking, right?” and “Just why?”
The tree is made by an organization known as Premier Decorations, which has a singular view on what a Christmas tree needs to be. Whereas there are any variety of synthetic tree producers who lean into the normal form, this firm chooses to go the opposite means.
Different Premier Decorations choices embrace a 7-foot Upside Down Christmas Tree (which is precisely what you’d count on) and a 6-foot tall tree that’s within the form of a Crescent Moon.
