Stipfold’s jagged Christmas Tree – Photos by Stipfold.
Design. Form follows… decoration! In Tbilisi, Georgian design studio Stipfold studio applies its spatial thinking to a jagged Christmas tree, turning a festive icon into a precise exploration of structure and surface.
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Stipold rejects conventional separations between walls, floors, and ceilings. Instead, space is treated as a single, continuous organism. Elements steep, fold, and merge. This approach, usually applied to architecture and interiors, here informs a design that operates at once as sculpture, structure, and, at the same time, Christmas celebration.
The project starts from a familiar triangular outline. That recognisable silhouette was methodically dismantled. Planes break apart. Angles sharpen. Comfort-zone tradition becomes a striking totemic architecture. Jagged edges and sharp angles define its profile, while reflective laminated surfaces interact with surrounding light. The result maintains the Christmas tree’s identity while deliberately unsettling its expected softness and symmetry.
“Like chairs, Christmas trees come in infinite variations and interpretations,” Stipfold told Archipanic. “Designers have tried to contribute to the development/reinterpretation of this object with their innovative thinking, or at least to do something original and different.”
That intention guided both form and process. “Our aim was to showcase the design philosophy and character of Stipfold through this product. We took a standard minimalistic triangular shape of the Christmas tree and deconstructed it while staying true to its character and meaning.”
The language is consistent with the studio’s wider portfolio, particularly their Blackbird house, conceived as a “singular architectural entity, folded continuously” and often compared to a spacecraft landing within its site.
Seen this way, the jagged Christmas tree becomes a narrative Christmassy object. It tells the story of a studio translating architectural research into a festive artefact, with daring, irreverent irony.
All photos of the jagged Christmas tree: courtesy of Stipfold.
Blackbird house by Stipfold.
