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Ileana Ottini’s videos on miniature dollhouses

Ileana Ottini – Videos on Dollhouse Miniatures

I love videos about dollhouse miniatures. Still photos are great, but when those images are in motion, I feel closer to the original work of art – better in some cases, where the guards and docents keep the lines moving. A source of great videos is Ileana Ottini’s website. There are sections devoted to the Victorian era, a history of decoupage, links to miniature museums around the world.

Here is a portion of an article on Ileana Ottini and her shop on the website Permasol.com (The Traveling Woman)

In Trastevere, a treasure chest of wonders

In Rome , in the heart of Trastevere , you can visit Ileana Ottini , an elegant, ageless girl who, with the enthusiasm of a very young girl and the infinite patience of an old woman, has dedicated herself to the creation and diffusion of one of the more difficult – than what are called “applied arts”.

Applied art – English applied art – is usually identified with a creative process aimed at creating objects of use and furnishing: in this case, Ileana realizes for the pure pleasure of doing, looking and showing.

The objects are naturally on sale, but the purchase is aimed at [pleasures for the eyes].

One of the techniques used by the artist, a singular art enthusiast, is that of the miniature, which declines in many ways: the most important is the creation of room boxes and miniatures scenes, reproductions of complicated environments, and perfect in scale 1: 12. It is thus that in his atelier, in the heart of Trastevere in Rome (“Acid Drop”, 14 via del Moro), you can admire authentic works of art for your lady friend.

Ileana is also the author of a website dedicated to the art of miniature ( www.ottini.eu ), where it is possible to retrace the history of Dolls House from the ‘600 to today, which is a true source of information for fans, in which with female precision Ileana recalls that it is necessary to have multiple skills: “it is necessary to cut, glue and dyewood to create the structures of the house (or room box) and furniture; plaster or paper the walls; spread floors in different materials; sew curtains, tablecloths and towels; frame pictures; mount electrical installations; in short, all the activities that, in a “real” house, are carried out by a series of different workers and specialists. ” …

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