Marco Zamora has returned to remind the rest of us that our decor ambitions are, frankly, modest. After last year’s floating, spiralized tree went massively viral, this season, he’s escalated to something even more audacious: a ‘frozen’ Christmas tree dripping with 100 crystal icicle branches. It looks couture-level complicated, but recreating it is far easier (and cheaper) to replicate than the final effect lets on.
Admittedly, Marco had a generous canvas to start with: a pre-lit, 12-foot ‘Feel-Real’ fir from National Tree Company that practically dwarfs him in his Instagram demo. Frost was his goal. ‘So the very first thing we did was make all of the icicle branches,’ he explains. ‘I got a bunch of different icicles and these frosted branches, and then carefully connected each icicle to create this frozen branch effect.’ The method isn’t difficult, just repetitious. Marco made 100 branches. Your Christmas tree, presumably less cathedral-sized, won’t need nearly that many.
