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Most Recent Posts Dolls Houses the vast choice!Posted Jul-30-07 13:24:39 PDT Updated Jul-30-07 13:29:15 PDT We currently offer in excess of 60 1:12th scale miniature Dolls House kits. Within our range you will find not only a Dolls House kit to suit all budgets but also a variety of styles which include Tudor, Georgian, Victorian, Cottages, Mansions, Modern and Dolls House Shops. Along with our extensive range of houses we also offer a range of basements designed and manufactured to compliment individual and specific Dolls House. Along with our extensive range of Dolls House we also offer an exciting collection of childrens wooden Le Toy Van dolls houses and accessories which are all based on traditional designs and concepts. Le Toy Van products are designed in the UK, with high play value & stylish aesthetics as the key criteria for development. All toys are safety tested and carry the appropriate certification. Le Toy Van toys stimulate real play in today's world, naturally developing key educational skills in communication, discovery, social and creative development. In addition to our Le Toy Van childrens range we have aqlso just taken delivery of a new Childrens Dolls Hous and range of wooden accessories. Over the coming months we will be adding a vast range of Dolls Houses and Accessories to EBAY at very special prices all of which will be available on EBAY here. Famous Dolls HousesPosted Jul-28-07 05:04:25 PDT Famous Dollhouses One of the most famous and well planned dollhouses is Queen Mary's Dolls House which was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Queen Mary's Dolls' House was a magnificent dollhouse built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for Queen Mary, the wife of King George V of the United Kingdom. The idea for building the dollhouse originally came from the queen's cousin, Princess Marie Louise, who discussed her idea with the one of the top architects of the time, Sir Edwin Lutyens at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1921. Sir Edwin agreed to build the dollhouse and began preparations. Princess Marie Louise had many connections in the arts, and arranged for the top artists and craftsmen of the time to contribute their specialties to the house. As a result, the dollhouse has an amazing collection of miniature items that actually work. It was created as a gift to Queen Mary from the people, and to serve as an historical document on how a royal family might live during the period in England. It showcased the very finest and most modern goods of the period. Later the dollhouse was put on display to raise funds for the queen's charities. It was originally exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924/5, and is now on display in Windsor Castle, at Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom as a tourist attraction, especially to people with an interest in miniature houses and furniture.
It was made to a scale of 1:12 (one inch to the foot), is over three feet tall, and contains models of products of well known companies of the time. It is remarkable for its detail and the detail of the objects within it, many of which are 1/12th replicas of items in Windsor Castle. These were either made by the companies themselves, or by specialist modelmakers, such as Twining Models of Northampton, England. The carpets, curtains and furnishings were all copies of the real thing, and even the light fittings were working. There is for example a flushable toilet, complete right down to the lavatory paper. In addition, well known writers such as Rudyard Kipling wrote special books which were written and bound in scale size and painters provided miniature pictures. Even the bottles in the wine cellar were filled with the appropriate wines and spirits, and the wheels of motor vehicles were properly spoked. About Dolls Houses and the History of Dolls HousesPosted Jul-28-07 04:53:22 PDT
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