CANOPY
Living sculptures. — Not cat trees.
Every Canopy tree is sculpted in extraordinary detail — every bark ridge, every knot, every scar modelled and painted by hand under a full evergreen canopy. Platforms, hollowed log dens, and sleeping hollows are grown into the composition, each one placed where a climbing, perching, hiding cat would ask for it. Seven designs, each named for a city and at home in it. Each tree is built once, to commission — conceived from its city's portrait for your room, your ceiling, your cats — and there is not another like it anywhere. Guests will ask where you found it, not what it's for.
And above the cities stand The Groves — trees over stone, built to the room itself. Those, you ask us about.
MANHATTAN
The tallest of the seven. A twisted double trunk rising past a hollowed log den to a fur-lined platform at penthouse height, under the widest canopy in the collection. Manhattan was designed for rooms with a view and cats who intend to supervise it.
PARIS
The romantic. A single sinuous trunk that curves like a brushstroke to one sunlit perch, with a sculpted den at its foot. The smallest footprint in the collection and the most graceful line. Paris takes a corner and makes it the reason guests sit facing that side of the room.
LONDON
The composed one. Two platforms set at civilised heights, a stump den below, the whole tree balanced like a well-made argument. London is the tree for the reader's room — the fireplace, the armchair, the cat installed above both.
ROME
The classic. Broad platforms carried on a heavy sculpted trunk, a grand open den at the base with its own cushioned floor. Rome is the most generous seat in the collection, built the way the city builds: to last, and to be lounged upon.
SYDNEY
The outdoor spirit. A leaning windswept trunk, canopy in open tiers, fur platform mid-climb and a planted stump den at the base. Sydney brings the harbour's ease indoors — the tree for bright rooms, water light, and cats who nap in the sun on principle.
BANGKOK
The sanctuary. Twin sisal columns beside a carved trunk, a wide cushioned den low in the roots, the canopy spread like temple eaves. Bangkok is the most serene composition in the collection — and the tree we named for the city Cattora calls home.
tokyo
The engineered one. Three log dens set through the branches like rooms in a tower, platforms between, every element placed with precision under a dense pruned canopy. Tokyo houses more cats per square metre than anything else we make, and does it without one wasted line.
How a tree is commissioned
Choose your city and your height — eight, ten, or twelve feet. We design your tree and send you its portrait: your tree, drawn for your ceiling, your corner, your cats. When you approve the design, the commission begins, and half the price is paid. Your tree is then built by hand — sculpted, cast, and finished bark ridge by bark ridge — and when it is complete we photograph it, the actual tree, for your final approval. Only then is the balance paid, and only then does it travel to you. You approve twice. You pay as you approve. Nothing ships that you have not seen.
Every Canopy tree stands free. The base is cast with concealed ballast slots, weighted at commission to the height of your tree — no drilling, no wall fixings, no permission needed from anyone. It stands because of how it was built, not because of what it was screwed to.
Each commission is completed and delivered within eight to twelve weeks. It is built from nothing, to your commission, and there is no shelf it could have come off. That is what the twelve weeks buy. "Eight to twelve weeks from the day you approve your portrait."
Your commission is numbered and named — Cattora Canopy No. 007 — Manhattan, ten feet — and the number is yours alone.
The particulars
Eight feet, $2,600. Ten feet, $3,700. Twelve feet, $4,800. Each commission is complete — tree, delivery, and every fixing. Freight is inside the price; there is nothing to add at checkout. Each tree is cast in fine-detail fibreglass and hand-finished — a fraction of the weight of timber, indifferent to humidity and claws, and stable for decades. It cleans with a damp cloth.
The groves
Territory as architecture. — Not furniture at all.
Beyond the cities, we build at the scale of the room itself: trees over stone, chambers set into sculpted rock, pieces that are installed rather than delivered. Each Grove is built once, to your commission, in five heights to sixteen feet. Choose yours, and the design begins.
METEORA
The monastery. Three chambers set into a weathered stone tower, a stone stair winding between them, the tree breaking from its crown. Meteora is territory as architecture — for the household where every cat keeps its own floor.
Delphi
The oracle's rest. A low grotto under an ancient olive, one lit chamber at its heart, a terrace of stone around it. Delphi is the calmest thing we make — built for the cat who has retired from climbing and taken up presiding.
SIENA
The hilltown. Chambers stacked in warm stone beneath a leaning olive, each with its own outlook, steps carved where steps would have worn. Siena is the piece for the room with the view — a town for cats, above the town.
Meteora from $4,400. Delphi from $5,200. Siena from $6,600. Five heights, to sixteen feet — choose yours in the store. Freight is inside the price. As with every Canopy commission, you approve the drawn portrait before building starts, and the photograph of the finished piece before it ships.
The Groves are commissioned by enquiry. Tell us about your room, and your cats, and we will bring you a portrait of what could stand in it