It’s easy to make holiday decor look nice when it’s neat. But a good designer’s work rarely plays it safe – and no one understands the art of the unexpected better than Shea McGee. In a recent Instagram video, the designer pulled back the curtain on her asymmetrical Christmas mantel idea, proving once again that imperfection, done right, can feel infinitely more elegant.
‘To get this huge statement on my mantel – which is very large – it needed a lot of garland, so I did five,’ Shea explains, referencing her dramatic cascade of McGee & Co. greenery – a mix of hyper-realistic pine, pinecones, white berries, and eucalyptus. ‘I pulled three into this corner and then did an additional to kind of taper it off on each side, because I wanted that buildup in the corner.’
