Ravendark's World Record Breaking Cat Tree!!
First - CONGRATULATIONS AREND!!! Your artistry is incredible and I am so excited for you!!
For all my friends and any new followers who haven’t heard me ramble on endlessly about this yet, I had the honor of photographing an absolutely incredible sculpted cat tree made by the artist Arend Smith of Ravendark Creations. This world record breaking cat tree stands two stories tall or 4.9 meters, and was commissioned by self proclaimed “crazy cat dad” Dr. Will Powers for his pride of savanna cats, bengals, and forest cats. The tree is fully hollow with shelves on the inside, mushroom perches on the outside, and strong branches, all of which are structurally sound so that a very large cat can easily hop from perch to perch, and a person can even stand on them! Fenrir and the rest of the star cats all love their new tree and you can check out our photos of them below…
Announced on August 8th, which is World Cat Day, Arend and Will’s tree is in the Guinness Book of World Records!
Congratulations again Arend, and thank you for inviting me to be a part of this project!!
Click Here To Check Out Guinness’s Article on The World Record Breaking Cat Tree
“I've got a long list of people to thank on this one! First of all, l'd like to thank Dr. Will Powers, who is such a great cat dad to all his beasts, for giving me a shot at building something so ridiculous in his home. I literally couldn't have done this job without the immense amount of help from my shop assistant Gray, the guys at @ramaterials in Detroit for their help with the estimates for the project and technical expertise, Trevor and Connor for the tedious mixing of 20+ gallons of Free Form Air, my father-in-law John for all the help cleaning and painting, our tiniest friend @tabzilladesigns for carpeting the entire inside of the tree, Alyssia of @alyssia_booth for making time to shoot my work...again , and last but not least my wife Savanna who kept my spirits up, held down the fort while I was away working, and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the room after we finally finished painting the tree.”
~Arend Smith, Ravendark Creations
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Alyssia is a 3rd generation, Mid-Michigan based Portrait Artist.
She photographs fantasy photography, boudoir, pets, families, seniors, weddings, headshots, and more!
Her studio is in Williamston, Michigan.