An adjustment House Queen

Queen Mary's Doll House is undoubtedly the most magnificent displays of beauty, detail and creativity of any dollhouse history. King George V of the United Kingdom presented this house to the Queen Mary in 1924 as a gift from the people of England to show to future generations as rights lived during the twentieth century.

Princess Marie Louise was the first to address the idea of ​​creating a masterpiece of Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the best architects England at the time. Taken by the notion, established immediately Lutyens to design a house that would fit for a queen, spared no expense. I wanted to create a fully furnished house in miniature that is required to elements found in Windsor Castle, to the smallest detail.

Built at 1:12 scale and standing about three and a half feet tall, the doll house forty room began to take shape. Lutyens employed artists and craftsmen to work on the interior. To a sense of detail and attention to these rooms, built a front entrance hall complete with a swirling staircase to the second floor, a library walnut bookcases, an official pantry with all modern day comforts and a bedroom with a queen canopy bed, the night sky painted on the ceiling.

These little details alone would be enough for the Queen Mary Doll's House one of the most impressive ever thumbnails created. Lutyens Sir plans that were more ambitious.

He insisted that it is necessary that everything inside the house is fully functional. Hired electricians to do all the work and the lamp light, plumbers to make every tap and toilet and craftsmen execute two elevators stop on every floor. He even went so far as to have a gramophone one-twelfth scale built to work as normal when playing a.

Sir Lutyens had talent furniture manufacturers make small replicas of the day furniture found in Windsor Castle. It had all the cabinets assortment of canned foods that had the logos of popular brands found in the real world Queen's kitchen. There was bedding, curtains, clothing, toys, and carpets created to scale. The basement cellar containing miniature bottles of wine with labels a thimble full of real wine value real advertising. The bathroom even had its own roll of toilet paper.

More than one hundred seventy writers, poet laureate Robert Bridges to Rudyard Kipling, were commissioned to write miniature books for the Library. provided well-known artists and art watercolor of the Queen Mary's Doll House.

As the project fired, Sir Lutyens chaired a House of Dolls' committee to oversee all these artists, writers and companies willing there to provide services to their vision.

No detail was forgotten. There were Royal Doulton and Wedgewood China, a Singer sewing machine in the laundry room, utensils, decorations, napkins, albums, stamps, and a little snail crawling on a leaf in the garden.
By the end of the project, about five hundred people participated in the creation of the dollhouse. Queen Mary was a great joy when he saw his gift, and ruled the house to share with everyone so that people can see and appreciate the genius of the English people.

He first appeared in 1924 in the British Empire Exhibition, which attracts two million visitors before moved to Windsor Castle. There remains today the dollhouse for anyone to see and enjoy.

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