I have had a life-long love affair with dollhouse miniatures, and careers in art education and interior design. I hope to combine these life experiences to help other miniature enthusiasts get more out of this wonderful hobby we enjoy, a hobby that often reaches the level of an art form. Susan Downing
Petronella Oortman’s cabinet dollhouse on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The term cabinet was originally used to describe a room rather than a piece of furniture. A “Cabinet of Curiosity” could contain collections of unusual items: fossils, scientific studies, oddities gathered from newly discovered lands. These rooms were often lavishly decorated, the treasures displayed in a setting designed for their maximum effect.
Categories: cabinet, dollhouses, Dutch
The Hartnell’sKensington House has a side portico above a wine cellar. Found on the Daily Mail
Tim and Angela Hartnell, owners of Anglia Dolls House in Norfolk, modeled the Kensington House on an 1815 Regency property. Their attention to detail is paramount. To protect the 1:12 scale visitors from being exposed to the scurrying and clatter of the miniature staff bringing food to their table, each elegant reception room is entered from a servants’ corridor.
Categories: artisans, dollhouses, Regency
The South Jersey House, Flora Gill Jacobs collection
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: June 12, 2006
Flora Gill Jacobs, an internationally recognized authority on dollhouses who spent her adult life blissfully awash in minutiae, including tiny, lavishly appointed mansions and an ornate Mexican villa that came with its own chapel (very small priest included), died on May 31 in Washington. She was 87 and lived in Chevy Chase, Md.
Categories: collections, dollhouses, miniatures, museums
The exterior of the Riggs Dolls House found on the Homes & History Magpie
Two lucky little girls received this dolls’ house as a gift from their father, a London stockbroker, during the 1840s. There was a great fashion for dolls’ houses at this time, but even by the standards of its day, it would have been an impressive piece. Designed as an expensive gift for the girls, it was also a way of displaying the family’s wealth and
Categories: amazing miniatures, dollhouses
