Madison Avenue

This is the last of our 2012 trees, and certainly one of our favorites. Our Madison Avenue trend is inspired by the Mad Men craze that is not only dominating the airwaves, but spreading into fashion and home decor. Martini lunches, high-waisted pencil skirts, and tweed suits are all making a comeback in a re-imagined, modern way.

The Madison Avenue color palette includes iconic colors of the 60's: bronze orange and avocado green with pops of fuscia and vibrant blue. We wrapped our tree in thick satin ribbon, intertwining the orange and green into a floppy bow at the top. Blue glitter bulbs peek out from the branches, along with copper glitter stars and matte green bulbs.

From our collections, we chose some of our large, glitter flats in gold, fuscia and silver, tied with brightly-colored satin ribbons. We also selected iconic pieces, including our peep-toe shoe ornament in blue, our martini ornament, glitter wine bucket ornament, silver glitter peace sign and pewter ornaments from our NYC collection.

Packages were wrapped in a mixture of colors, from copper to blue and interspersed with a patterned paper of bright orange flowers. For each package we tied one of our ornaments to the bow which can be engraved on the back and used as a gift tag!

1900's Gothic Victorian

Continuing our re-emerging trends throughout the decades, we're going back in time to the early 1900's where the darkly romantic style of the Victorian age is making waves as a new trend in style, literature, and film also known as Steampunk. Re-imagined lace-up boots, corsets, and of course, icons of the steam-powered age are characteristic of the trend, and as you can see from our Gothic Victorian tree, the color palette includes varying metallics in bronze, pewter and brushed silver, deep purples and burgandys.

For our Steampunk tree, we twisted steel-colored mesh ribbon with burgandy satin through the branches and created a topper combining the two ribbons. To continue the theme, we also used the same ribbons on the packages below. Copper colored birds are clipped to the branches along with copper gears in varying sizes, bunches of small purple bulbs and copper metallic blown glass bulbs.






From our ornament collection, we included our matte gold filigree ornaments with Swarovski crystals, bronze filigree dragonflies, bronze owls, bronze filigree diamond photo frames and our pewter, steam-powered train.

Next week, the 1960's Madison Avenue tree.

1940's Pin-Up

For our annual holiday Trend Intelligence guide this year, we followed trend and fashion across the ages, finding themes and colors that have re-emerged in an updated style. First up, is our 1940's pin-up trend, reminiscent of carefree class and sailor-inspired design.


As you can see from our pin-up tree, the color palette includes cherry reds, vibrant pinks and a combination of blues. The tree-topper is a bow made from wide gingham ribbon and as garland, we used a mixture of red and light teal chiffon.


Filler bulbs come in fun spirals, red pinwheels and large, teal glitter and deep rose bulbs. Throughout the tree, we also used smaller gingham bows to tie everything together.


For our ornaments, we chose icons reminiscent of the era: pink swirl flamingos, blue sailboats, red glitter high-heeled shoes and cherries, and our "kiss" lips tied with red hearts satin ribbon.

For our packages, we found a combination of wrappings: red gift bags stuffed with pink tissue, silver with red and light teal ribbons, and underwater themed paper adorned with one of our sailboat ornaments.

Next week: 1900's Gothic Victorian