Decorating the 2023 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

The Norway Spruce arrived in Rockefeller Center early on November 11 and was lifted into place by crane. It is now surrounded by extensive scaffolding and its decoration is surely underway. The tree lighting ceremony will be aired on November 29. Here's how the plaza looked to me today.

Prometheus, 1934
Paul Manship

Saks Fifth Avenue facade decorations

St. Patrick's Cathedral

St. Patrick's Cathedral

St. Patrick's Cathedral

Atlas, installed 1937
Lee Lawrie and Rene Paul Chambellan

Cartier

The Plaza Hotel

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Edward Gorey: Gorey Holidays

The Gorey Holidays boxed set of Christmas cards contains an assortment of four Edward Gorey designs. The box's artwork, also on one of the cards, depicts some bare-bones tree trimming. It may seem familiar: it is the design of Gorey's first New Yorker cover, the only one to be published in his lifetime.

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Edward Gorey
The New Yorker, December 21, 1992

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