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
The Red Bedroom crime scene diorama
Through the 1940s and 1950s, Frances Glessner Lee hosted a series of semi-annual seminars in homicide investigations at Harvard University. Using intricately constructed dioramas of actual crime scenes, complete with working doors, windows and lights, Frances taught detectives, prosecutors, and other investigators to solve real crimes with the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.”
Categories: dioramas
Four Classy New York 1:12 Scale Shopping Bags
I have over 30 famous-name dollhouse shopping bags in stock. These 1:12 scale bags have handles and removable tissue paper peeking out the top. Most measure 1” x 1,25”; some, like Tiffany bags, are slightly smaller, in keeping with sizes in the real world. You can buy individual bags, or mix and match in any quantity.
I have 1:12 scale shopping bags come from all over the world. Harrods and Selfridge in London; Christian Louboutin (Paris), GUM, Moscow’s top department store, and Farid in Karachi, Pakistan, for instance.
Categories: accessorizing, shopping bags
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Section of the White House replica being unloaded at an exhibition site. Source unknown.
Using the word “miniature” to describe enormous dollhouses has always seemed weird to me. That’s especially true with the 1/12the scale replica of the White House. This colossus is 60 feet long and 20 feet wide. It weighs 10 tons and goes on tour in a big rig. John Zweigel’s obsessions truly stretches the universe of “tiny things.”
Categories: dollhouses, Great Dollhouses
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Front of the Doll’s House at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, furniture attributed to Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale was born in Yorkshire early in 1718. His family had long been in the woodworking trades and he probably received his basic training from his father. When his apprenticeship was completed, he moved to London and worked as a journeyman cabinet maker.
Categories: Chinoiserie, Great Dollhouses, Regency, Rococo
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