A Damien Hirst-designed Christmas tree has been raising eyebrows in Mayfair this week, as residents deemed its decorations “insensitive”. The tree, which was commissioned by the Connaught hotel and is near a church and a homeless shelter, is festooned with pill bottles, scissors and syringes, not to mention strings of sausages. Not the most festive of themes, at least according to some.
“The tone of some of the decorations and objects on the tree [syringes etc] and the sexual connotations of some of them is inappropriate and culturally insensitive,” one neighbour told the Daily Mail, presumably referring to the sausage decorations. “The whole thing seems to have been done in a thoughtless manner.”
We’d like to know about the most unconventional thing you have done to celebrate Christmas. Perhaps, like Hirst, you festooned your tree with incongruous decorations, or maybe you have an unusual Christmas tradition, recipe, or theme? Tell us about your weird, quirky, or unexpected Christmases.
