A MODEL DOLL’S HOUSE.
A GIFT TO THE QUEEN
A model doll’s house, created by the joint efforts of some of Lhe most famous architects, painters, sculptors and decorators of the day, is to he given to the Queen. The superintending nrchilecl is Sir EdAvard Lutyens, creator of the Cenotaph. Queen Mary’s deep interest in art, in decorative furnishing and in housing has long been a source of direct inspiration to many of the cleverest craftsmen of the time. It occurred to some of them that it would he a very happy tiling if her Majesty Avould consent to accept a doll’s house, made by the combined efforts of the home-making artists of the day, as an act of appreciation of her interest in the making of beautiful houses.
About eight feet high, the doll’s house will be of great historic value in the future, for it will represent in miniature the best architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative equipment and furnishing of the day. It will, in short, be the model house of 1921.
Mr Sargent will paint tiny portraits for the little rooms. There will be small busts and statuettes by distinguished sculptors, while expert furnishers will arrange for carpets and draperies' and wallpapers and furniture.
It is to be hoped that the house, when completed, will be publicly exhibited.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2354, 12 November 1921, Page 4
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221A MODEL DOLL’S HOUSE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2354, 12 November 1921, Page 4
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