 Living Room of Dollhouse. Maine, USA A dollhouse is a toy home, made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children but their collection and crafting have also fascinated a large number of adults. The very same dollhouses often appeal to both groups but very young children (age 3 years and under) should be restricted from access to the great majority of these domestic replicas because of choking hazards. Dollhouse can refer to: A dollhouse, a miniature replica of a standard house A Dolls House, a 1879 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen The Dolls House, the second graphic novel collection of the comic book series The Sandman, published by DC Comics This is a disambiguation page...
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Today's doll's house traces its history directly back about four hundred years to the "baby houses" of Europe. The baby houses were cabinet display cases made up of rooms. The cabinets were built with architectural details and filled with miniature household items and were solely the playthings of adults. They were off-limits to children, not because of safety concerns for the child but for the dollhouse. Such cabinet houses [1] were trophy collections owned by the few matrons living in the cities of Holland, England and Germany who were wealthy enough to afford them, and, fully furnished, were worth the price of a modest full-size house's construction.
As time went on, smaller doll houses with more realistic exteriors became evident in Europe (such as the Tate House) [2].
The term dollhouse is common in the United States and Canada. In UK usage, dolls' house or dollshouse is usual.
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History
Miniature homes, furnished with domestic articles and resident inhabitants (both people and animals), have been made for thousands of years. The earliest known examples were found in the Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom, created nearly five thousand years ago. These wooden models of servants, furnishings, boats, livestock and pets placed in the Pyramids almost certainly were made for religious purposes. The earliest known European dollhouses are from the Sixteenth Century. These baby or cabinet houses showed idealized interiors complete with extremely detailed furnishings and accessories (mostly hand made).
The early European dollhouses were each unique, constructed on a custom basis by individual craftsmen. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, factories began mass producing toys, including dollhouses and miniatures suitable for furnishing them. German companies noted for their dollhouses included Christian Hacker, Moritz Gottschalk, Elastolin, and Moritz Reichel. The list of important English companies includes Siber & Fleming, Evans & Cartwright, and Lines Brothers (which became Tri-ang). By the end of the Nineteenth Century American dollhouses were being made in the United States by The Bliss Manufacturing Company. A Watt steam engine, the steam engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world. ...
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Germany was the producer of the most prized dollhouses and doll house miniatures up until The Great War. Notable German miniature companies included Märklin, Rock and Garner and others. Their products were not only avidly collected in Central Europe, but regularly exported to Britain and North America. Germany's involvement in WWI seriously impeded both production and export. New manufacturers in other countries arose. “The Great War †redirects here. ...
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The Toy Furniture Shop of Providence, Rhode Island (The TynieToy Company) made authentic replicas of American antique houses and furniture in a uniform scale beginning in about 1917 [3]. Other American companies of the early Twentieth Century were Roger Williams Toys, Tootsietoy, Schoenhut, and the Wisconsin Toy Co. Dollhouse dolls and miniatures were also produced in Japan, mostly by copying original German designs.
After WW II dollshouses became mass produced in factories on a much larger scale, and with less detailed craftsmanship, than ever before. By the 1950's the typical dollhouse sold commercially was painted sheet metal filled with plastic furniture. The cost of these houses was low enough to allow the great majority of girls from the developed western countries that were not struggling with rebuilding after WWII to own a dollhouse. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Early European Dollhouses Several magnificent antique dollhouses are on exhibit in Museums around the world. Although these houses were not constructed to capture an era, activities of daily living are shown in such great detail in some of them that the viewer gains some insight into domestic life of the times.
Dutch - The Doll's House of Petronella Oortman c. 1686-1705. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam estimates that P. Oortman spent twenty to thirty thousand guilders on her “model house”, the price of a real house along one ofAmsterdam’s canals at that time. This doll’s house shows the linen room (laundry room), kitchen, and bedrooms in great detail – which serve to illustrate the workings of the household of that era [4] [5].
English-The Tate House (1760) , on Exhibit in The Museum of Childhood in London. The National Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in the East End of London is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A), which is the United Kingdoms national museum of applied arts. ...
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Standard scales The baby houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the toy dollhouses of the nineteenth and early twentieth century rarely had uniform scales, even for the features or contents of any one individual house. Although a number of manufacturers made lines of miniature toy furniture in the Nineteenth Century, these products were not to a strict scale.
From left: half inch scale, three quarter inch scale, 1 inch scale, 1/10th scale There have been several standard scales in dolls houses over the years. Children's toy houses during most of the 20th century were three quarter scale (where 1 foot is represented by 3/4 of an inch), also known as 1:18 (1' equals 18"). Popular brands included Lundby (Sweden) (established in 1947 and still going strong), Renwal, Plasco, Marx, Petite Princess, and T. Cohn (all American) and Caroline's Home, Barton, Dol-Toi and Triang (English). A few nominally 3/4-scale brands may run closer to 1:16 scale. With the exception of Lundby, 3/4-scale furniture was most often made from plastic. Houses were made from a variety of materials, including metal (tin litho), fibreboard, plastic, and wood. Image File history File links Scale_for_Nancy. ...
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In Germany during the middle part of the 20th century 1/10th scale became popular (based on a metric system where 10 inches is represented by 1 inch). Toylike houses coming out of Germany today remain closer in scale to 1:10 than to 1:12.
In the 1970s, the standard for adult collectors became 1/12th (also called 1" or one inch scale, represented in the U.S. as 1:12). There is also half inch scale or 1/24th (1 foot is represented by 1/2 an inch), quarter inch scale or 1/48th (1 foot is represented by 1/4 of an inch, close to the O scale of model railroading), and "dollhouse for a dollhouse" (1:144). Half-inch scale was popular in Marx dollhouses in the 1950s but only became widely available in "collector" houses after 2002, about the same time that even smaller scales became more popular. These smaller scales are much more common in the U.S. than in Britain. O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and model railroading. ...
And finally there is "Playscale" or 1/6th which is proportionate for Barbie, Blythe and other similar dolls. 1:6 scale modeling [aka Playscale Miniaturism] is a hobby focusing on the customization of commercially produced 1:6 scale action figures, accessories and, even, dollhousing. ...
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Contemporay kit and fully built houses are typically made of plywood or medium density fibreboard. Tab-and-slot kits use a thinner plywood and are held together by a system of tabs and slots (plus glue). These houses are usually light-weight and lower cost but often require siding, shingles, or other exterior treatments to look their best. Kits made from heavier plywood or MDF are held together with nails and glue. In the U.S., most houses have an open back and a fancy front facade, while British houses are more likely to have a hinged front that opens to reveal the rooms. The great majority of contemporary dollhouses are built in one inch scale. Toy constructed from plywood. ...
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Getting started in the hobby There are several ways to acquire a dollhouse. Some (since this can be expensive, it's not for everyone) people buy a ready-made and decorated house first and proceed to more adventurous projects later on. Quite a few buy one of the many kits available to build. Some design and make their own house, these range from simple boxes stacked together to works of art. The other options are to buy a house made to your own design (which is expensive!) Some start with simple room settings.
The same principle applies to miniature objects to go inside dollhouses, such as books and clocks, items of furniture, interior decorations, and dolls. Although shop-bought items are generally of a higher quality, they tend to be more expensive. Homemade items are often cheaper and more rewarding to make as almost any material can be used. For other uses, see Book (disambiguation). ...
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Interior decoration or décor is the art of decorating a room so that it is attractive, easy to use, and functions well with the existing architecture. ...
If there are no dollhouse shops in your area, then one alternative is to use mail order. This is popular in Britain and America, but more so in the United States. 1/12th scale dollhouses start at around $50 for a simple kit but can run much higher for a large, elaborate, or one-of-a-kind house. There are also dozens of miniature trade shows held throughout the year by various miniature organizations, where artisans and dealers display and sell miniatures. Often, how-to seminars are part of the show features. Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. ...
Famous dollhouses -
 Also located in Chicago are the famous Thorne Rooms, 68 miniature period rooms designed by Mrs. James Ward Thorne, who commissioned master craftsmen to create the furnishings for the rooms during the 1930s and '40s. The rooms are housed in the Art Institute of Chicago. -
 In Tampere in Finland, the Moomin Museum displays the Moomin house, a dollhouse created around the Moomin characters of Tove Jansson. The house was built by Jansson and some of her close friends and later donated to the town of Tampere. -
Mott's Miniatures Museum was on display at Knott's Berry Farm for over 34 years. Mott's Miniatures Museum depicted the history of America in miniature. Seen by millions of people each year from 1958 to 1992, the Mott's Miniatures Museum helped to further the miniatures hobby and may have inspired millions to create their own miniature dollhouse.
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Titanias Palace is a dollhouse that was hand-built by Sir Neville Wilkinson 1907 and 1922. ...
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Castletown House, Irelands finest Palladian country house, is an imposing building built in 1722 for William Connolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. ...
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Tampere ( , IPA: ; Swedish: Tammerfors ) is a city in southern Finland located between two lakes, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. ...
Moomin Valley (Moomin museum) is situated in the city of Tampere, Finland. ...
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External links - Maple Street Dolls House Museum
- Kruger Collection Collection of dollhouse miniatures on display at the University of Nebraska
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