When Jason Thawley was growing up in the Lincolnshire countryside, he didn’t have a treehouse. But he would have really liked one. ‘It’s probably,’ he says, ‘why I do what I do now.’
In 2016, the 50-year-old founded Tree Tents, a British company that builds spherical treehouses. Today, there are more than 20 of these orbs around the world and now Thawley’s creations are featured in a new book: Modern Treehouses by Florian Siebeck. The book is a celebration of arboreal structures: a glass treehouse in Norway; a wooden treehouse built on top of a volcano in Japan; a three-storey treehouse in Indonesia.
But Thawley’s spheres are special. The structures, weighing around 250kg, are made using recycled aluminium and sustainable plywood, lined with fleece cladding and covered in an ultra-waterproof canvas. They’re suspended – using steel wires – between several trees and you access them via ladder. Inside, ‘it’s a bit Tardis-like’: each tree tent measures three metres wide and three metres tall. There’s space for a double and single bed, desk, and log burner. (The latter has a chimney that pops out of the tent’s side.)
You can stay in the one pictured here, part of the Nasets Marcusgard campsite in Swedenfor around £240 a night. In winter it gets to minus 20C – but, says Thawley, that fleecy insulation and burner mean ‘you could be in shorts and a T-shirt’. Unlike most treehouses – which are built solidly around a tree – the tents move slightly in the wind. ‘It’s a feeling of very low turbulence,’ says Thawley. ‘It’s the best night’s sleep I’ve ever had.’
Modern Treehouses is published by Taschen, £50
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Published on: 2025-11-29 12:01:00
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