Modern Christmas Trees was born to celebrate the legacy of Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker, Bliss’ grandfather. A former engineer of Nasa and creator of Delta Vacation Homes (a company that manufactured hundreds of A-format houses at the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado), Stoecker invented, in 1966, a different christmas tree that enchanted children and grandchildren for decades.

It was made of concentric rings, suspended from the ceiling and filled with ornaments. The first one was made out of cardboard, and the next, masonite board. Then Stoecker tried the plexiglas – a pure design statement that allured the most demanding ones. “I can remember having my head under the tree looking up with my brothers doing the same on either side of me. What a view!

Then my grandpa would slowly rotate the tree and blow our minds! It was like looking through the world’s biggest caleidoscope”, remembers Bliss.