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Bezig met laden... Dollhouses, Miniature Kitchens, and Shops from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (1996)door Susan Hight Rountree
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Visitors have long loved the two dollhouses featured in this book. The handsome Morris-Canby-Rumford dollhouse belonged to one family from the time it was built and furnished in 1820 until it was given to the Folk Art Center in 1981. It still holds many of its original Empire-style furnishings as well as later pieces copied from eighteenth-century antique furniture owned by the family. The Long Island dollhouse is an impressive, 12-foot-long, Colonial Revival-style structure believed to have been built about a century after the Morris-Canby-Rumford dollhouse. Its rooms contain many finely crafted antique neoclassic and Victorian pieces as well as more modern furnishings and accessories given to the house by generous donors. Several toy rooms rarely seen by visitors are also included in Dollhouses, Miniature Kitchens, and Shops. Now people who missed previous exhibits can imagine laboring over the large stove top in the tile-roof kitchen, appreciate the new style embodied by the turn-of-the-century kitchen, and admire the fashionable hats modeled by the beautifully painted mannequins in the millinery shop. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The Long Island Dollhouse, found by a contractor in 1968 in a house he was demolishing (origin unknown), is more of a 20th century mansion type, built longer and lower than, but similarly to Queen Mary's Dollhouse. Donated items combine with the furniture that was in the dollhouse, but the overall effect as curated by the Folk Art Museum is still 19th c. A number of items from the Folk Art Center have been duplicated in minature to furnish the house as well-- the toys in particular. A mix of scales is more evident here than in the other dollhouse. The Music room is especially entrancing. The kitchen in the Long Island Dollhouse is beautifully full of accessories of every description, including a black silk Brazilian doll. Wood, copper, china, and even marzipan (in foodstuffs made by a Colonial Williamsburg pastry chef) will have cooks' fingers itching. There is even a well-furnished toolshed.
The last part of the book is focused on 19th century toy kitchens and shops, usually German-made, in the collection. The Nuremberg Kitchen, early 19th century, will look mostly familiar to connoiseurs of early modern German kitchen prints; there is also another tile-roofed kitchen, and a turn of the 20th century kitchen, as well as a Dry Goods Shop, Millinery Shop, and Post office. For anyone who was ever entranced by the Playmobil Kitchen (http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Product-Show?pid=5317&cgid=Puppenhaus) or Playmobil Royal Kitchen (http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Product-Show?pid=4251&cgid=Maerchenschloss), this is the pre-21st century equivalent... Oh my.
The pictures are large, glossy, and well laid out. The text is just enough to give the reader a sense of what they are seeing. This is primarily a picture book for the collection/exhibit, but it's well worth a look. (Me, I want to buy a copy.) ( )