Kings, Queens and Princely Palaces Part 3
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Welcome to the third part of our look into the most popular dolls’ house and miniatures eras. In this installment we will be looking at the Victorian Era, possibly the most popular of eras for dolls’ house enthusiasts as it provides us with so much ‘stuff’ to put in our houses!
Kings, Queens and Princely Palaces – Part 2
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Following on from our introduction into the more popular periods for styling your dolls’ house, we’re moving forward from the Tudor realm, which ended with the death of Queen Elizabeth the first in 1603, by about 100 years, to 1714 and the reign of King George.
Kings, Queens and Princely Palaces Part 1
Thursday, March 12th, 2009One of the questions we are asked most here at Dolls House towers, is ‘What period is this piece of furniture?’ In truth, it’s not always easy to say as fashions didn’t change the minute a new monarch was crowned and just like today, back then we wouldn’t have thrown out a Georgian chair simply because it wasn’t fashionable any more, it may be still be a beautiful and practical piece of furniture. Additionally, some periods can be generalised, for example, the Georgian period includes the Regency period of architecture and design and the term Georgian is sometimes used to refer to this more specific period. It’s also important to remember that it is your dolls’ house to do what you want with it, be creative and mix periods if you wish, after all, no one really lives in a shrine to one era do they?! – (maybe you do, in which case send us pictures!)
All that said, over the next few weeks we are entering dangerous waters as we endeavour to start a small guide to the most popular periods. If you like what you read or if you have some other suggestions and contributions, please do comment.
History in the Making
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Almost 30 years ago, Jackie Lee and her then partner Adam Purser, got a crazy idea to set up a business making and selling dolls house kits. Now about to celebrate its 30th Anniversary in 2009, The Dolls House Emporium has gone from strength to strength including developing some of the most recognisable dolls houses in the world, such as the Classical which appeared in the first catalogues back in 1985 and is still one of the leading sellers today.
As you’ll see from the images, the catalogue was produced to come out in March, unlike today’s run of September to August and the front cover wasn’t colour, in fact we didn’t get a full colour cover until 1987!
