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22/12/2008Christmas decorations cater to young

Christmas decorations mix modern with traditional to cater to young.

The way a person dresses and decorates usually indicates how he or she would like to decorate for Christmas.

Glittery stars, ornaments piled on ornaments, tinsel and wooden figures: The practice of digging deep into the decoration box will be part of Christmas 2008.


People tuned in to tradition are delighted by such displays, while purists are horrified. But Christmas is a time when contrasting worlds of taste collide but still manage to celebrate the holiday peacefully together under the Christmas tree.

The two conflicting decoration styles seem to have particularly inspired younger designers who have used entirely different forms in their creche and incense smoker creations.

Kerstin Maenner, who oversees Christmasworld, a trade show in Frankfurt, describes the development as the making Christmas kitsch younger. There is an ever-increasing number of companies that have taken up the trend and begun to offer abstract products. Experts say the decorations are aimed primarily at people in their mid-30s.

 

"When you have your own kids, you want to revive Christmas traditions," said Sabine Koppe of a Hamburg-based organization that follows trends. "But you find out your tastes have changed. The way a person dresses and decorates usually indicates how he or she would like to decorate for Christmas, and the appropriate accessories have to be found."

This experience was the same for Franziska Ermert and her designer colleagues at the Duesseldorf company es. A few decorations were brought out for the first Christmas after the birth of her first child. "Otherwise, it was just hard to find something that fit in a modern apartment with the exception of a few expensive items."

So they got busy and produced, among other things, a creche for everyone "who maintains old customs yet loves the modern." An example is a representation of the holy family optically cut out of a metal plate and placed under the Christmas tree. Folded up, the creche is ultra flat and makes a nice Christmas gift.
decoration from Corpus Delicti in Hamburg

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