{"id":1109,"date":"2016-12-07T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/blog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2016-12-14T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:57:59","slug":"a-mid-century-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/a-mid-century-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"A mid-century Christmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even the traditional Christmas tree can have a modern makeover. Modern Christmas Trees is a US-based company specialized in exactly that \u2013 a mid-century Christmas tree<\/strong><\/em>, inspired by the shape of A-frame cabins. We spoke to its founder, Matt Bliss, to find out more.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: MIDCENTURY MODERN HOME ACCESSORIES TO GET RIGHT NOW<\/a>\n<\/h4>\n

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Could you tell us more about the\u00a0mid-century Christmas tree that became the first \u201cModern Christmas Tree\u201d?<\/h3>\n

My grandfather, Lawrence \u201cBud\u201d Stoecker, was an engineer and had his own business building A-frame cabins throughout the Colorado Rockies. He liked to make things and the triangle shape of an A-frame cabin was familiar. This led him to create the first \u201cModern Christmas Tree\u201d in 1965. This first tree was made out of cardboard. He then migrated to masonite board and finally Plexiglas.<\/p>\n

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What are some of your memories of your childhood Cxhristmas?<\/h3>\n

We always spent Christmas Eve at our grandparents\u2019 house and the tree would always be up. My brothers and I would put our heads under the tree and look up and Grandpa would then slowly rotate the tree. What a sight! Although the tree was always made of concentric rings, it was decorated it differently every year. My grandfather took notes on the pattern of ornaments so he wouldn\u2019t repeat himself.<\/p>\n

What inspired you to make this mid-century Christmas tree available to the public?<\/h3>\n

When my grandfather was first diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s I decided to update his tree as a tribute to him \u2013 I wanted him to be recognised for what he did. I just simplified the ornaments and increased the distance between rings. People love the tree and the story behind them. I\u2019ve sold them all over the world. For every large tree I sell, I donate $50 to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association. I\u2019ve raised over $15,000 in the last few years.<\/p>\n

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There are some fantastic photographs showing the tree in the Stahl House \u2013 could you tell us a bit more about how this happened?<\/h3>\n

This was a dream come true. I wanted to film the tree in the perfect venue (the Stahl House designed by Pierre Koenig in 1959 as part of the Case Study Houses program) and I reached out to the Stahl\u2019s and told them about my Grandpa and his trees. They had dealt with Alzheimer\u2019s in their family. I love how the tree holds its own in that amazing house! We were also lucky enough to be able to photograph the tree inside Charles Deaton\u2019s 1963 \u2018Sleeper\u2019 House in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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How can those of us in the UK get their hands on a Modern Christmas Tree?<\/h3>\n

I ship to the UK from the US but I\u2019m looking to have a local distributor next year.<\/p>\n

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SOURCE:\u00a0midcenturymagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Even the traditional Christmas tree can have a modern makeover. Modern Christmas Trees is a US-based company specialized in exactly that \u2013 a mid-century Christmas tree, inspired by the shape of A-frame cabins. We spoke to its founder, Matt Bliss, to find out more. \u00a0 \u00a0 SEE ALSO: MIDCENTURY MODERN HOME ACCESSORIES TO GET RIGHT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[197,24,12,17,79],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-a-mid-century-christmas-tree","tag-design","tag-interior-design","tag-mid-century-design","tag-mid-century-modern-living-rooms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}