Category Archives: amazing miniatures

Posted on 11 March, 2016

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The Tasha Tudor Dollhouse study, found on “Mrs. Rabe’s trip to Williamsburg”

Tasha Tudor’s Dollhouse

The dollhouse you see on exhibit at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Williamsburg is not the real one. The original was more like room boxes built into the walls of her home in Marlboro, Vermont.  Tudor’s “dollhouse” in Corgi Cottage, came to the attention of curators at Colonial Williamsburg in 1996. They offered to build a ¼ scale replica, complete with miniature goat barn and greenhouse.

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Posted by Patrick Owens


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Posted on 18 January, 2016

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The Henriques Dolls House Drawing RoomHenriques House

Henriques House

This 1954 correspondence between two curators at the Victoria & Albert Museum, one a recent visitor to Normandy Park, shows how accidental re-discoveries of great dollhouses happened. It makes one wonder how many were lost.

“I noticed at Normandy Park, a quite attractive 18th century pedimented dolls’ house with a basement. The furnishing was all Victorian. Do you think that Circulation would like it?”

“Yes please.” replied the curator in the temporary exhibit section of the museum.

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Posted by Susan Downing


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Posted on 03 January, 2016

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The Catherine Palace Amber Room found on The Magical Dollhouse

Robert Dawson, Miniature Artisan

When Kathleen Savage Browning announced the acquisition of the Catherine Palace, I was pleased that a work by Robert Dawson would be at the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center. I run across his name often, when searching for article ideas and thought this would be a good time to learn more about him.

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Posted on 25 December, 2015

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The Marie Antoinette Connection

The Marie Antoinette Connection

Kevin Mulvany and Susie Rogers are two of my favorite artisans. Trained historians, they specialize in architectural miniatures and are known for re-creating historically significant and detailed European castles and mansions. They have traveled miles in order to visit the places they rebuild.

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Posted by Susan Downing


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