The Best Christmas Tree Decoration Themes for 2025
Words by Bridie Newman
If you see your annual Christmas decorations theme as an opportunity to live out your wildest fantasies, you’re in the right place. Whether you’re a sentimentalist, mixing nostalgic ornaments with new finds, or a savvy stylist, creating a bauble display your guests anticipate each year, the best-dressed trees always tell a story.
Save yourself hours of scouring Pinterest with our buyers' five enchanting themes for 2025. Step into a Tudor manor, embark on an Arctic expedition, become an eccentric conservationist, live out the glamour of debutants, or turn your home into an art studio. Which festive tale will you tell this year?
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The Red Queen
It’s a Tudor banquet, and everyone is invited. Inspired by Lady Margaret Beaufort, known as ‘matriarch’, the Red Queen theme encapsulates an era of rich ornaments, extravagant dress and lavish houses.
Start by arranging a handful of the Harrods-exclusive Red Bow Tassel Decoration from Jessica Light on your tree. The last passementerie practitioner left in the East End of London, Light hand-weaves her tassels on a mid-19th-century foot-powered treadle loom. A testament to traditional British craftsmanship, her work has been commissioned by Vivienne Westwood and The Royal Collections Trust – a fitting nod to the regal theme.
Complement the bow tassels with shades of deep burgundy, crimson, fuchsia, and gold, as well as rich velvets and intricate patterns, including lace, jacquard and brocade.
Poles Apart
Just like David Attenborough fans, the frozen frontiers of the Arctic and Antarctic captured the imagination of our buyers this year. Examining the shifting colours, striking textures and dramatic forms of these remote landscapes – and the extraordinary wildlife and flora that call them home – they created the Poles Apart theme.
Create a world of icy blue and turquoise, where iridescent and metallic accents meet crystallised forms, kaleidoscopic patterns and mirror-like surfaces. On the mantelpiece, Simon Pearce’s collectable glass creations, like this Evergreen Christmas Tree Ornament, bring a touch of brilliance.
Hand-blown in Vermont using centuries-old Georgian glassmaking techniques, they echo the lush greenery of the region. Place them over a light source for a radiant glow or let them shimmer quietly, reflecting the light on their own.
The Curious Collector
Picture a world where His Dark Materials meets Miss Havisham: a tree transformed into a cabinet of curiosities, dressed in deep black with flashes of beetle green and rich turquoise. If that sounds like your cup of tea, the Curious Collector theme is for you. Our buyers look to the past and peer into the future, adding a supernatural twist with exotic species.
Embrace the wonder with this exclusive Gold Small Dragonfly Cloche Ornament. Crafted with 24-carat gold plating and meticulously hand-assembled, The London Christmas Company collection is destined to become a treasured heirloom. Display the cloche on the mantlepiece or remove the dragonfly and prop it on the tree (as photographed).
Debutants and Divas
Imagine a lavish dressing room where Debutants and Divas ready themselves for a ball. Rows of pearls draped over dressing table mirrors, vases filled with romantic blooms, pretty-in-pink tiaras and cocktails. If this sounds like a familiar dream, you’ve discovered your 2025 theme.
Inspired by Andrew Bolton’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion publication, this ethereal aesthetic draws on the soft pastels of the Spring/Summer 2025 New York collections, punctuated with sharp yellow and lime green.
Handcrafted in Irish linen and detailed with traditional Zari embroidery, Katie Larmour’s fairytale-like miniature Pink Handbag Tree Decoration, created exclusively for Harrods, will twinkle from the tree.
Open Studio
Transform your home into an artist’s haven this Christmas with the Open Studio theme. Capture the intimacy of a maker’s space: the organised chaos, the unexpected arrangements, the worn brushes and the splashes of paint that tell their own stories.
Our buyers translate this spirit into a joyful palette, with painterly tools and vibrant colour wheels designed to make you smile. Somerset-based textile artist and illustrator Alice Mary Lynch knows such a studio well. In her long-standing collaboration with Harrods, she has created intricately hand-stitched characters – like the elephant pictured – inspired by folklore, fantasy and childhood nostalgia.
Festive Favourites
If Christmas evokes traditional red, green and gold, cherished nostalgia and beloved characters, discover our festive favourites.
Christmas Magic Beyond the Tree
Christmas World
Step into a glittering world of festive delights at our world-famous Christmas shop on the Lower Ground Floor, open from now until the end of the year.
