Doll’s House Furniture
Miniature plastic and metal furniture in a new ash doll’s house
Owner: Charlotte Philipps
Repaired by: Studiomama in London, 2022
The furniture is thought to have been purchased from a German toy shop called Spielwaren Kurtz in Stuttgart in the late 1960s, early 1970s by the owner’s parents. These are the few remaining pieces from a cherished doll’s house and furniture collection.
Charlotte with her doll house and furniture. Image Courtesy of Charlotte Philipps.
Story
Charlotte recounted: “My sisters and I each had a small doll’s house – more like a sophisticated cardboard box which our father had made. Every Christmas, these doll’s houses would be brought to us by Father Christmas with one or two new items of furniture or accessories. We could not wait to start playing, decorating, furnishing, and throwing elaborate parties inside the dolls’ houses. Of course, the scale of the items does not match at all - but we never noticed.”
Repair
A repair can sometimes consist in bringing back what was missing – in this case, the Doll’s House itself. Taking inspiration from Charlotte’s original doll’s house and adding the sliding door/wall she always wished for, Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama of Studiomama have created a new stage for the furniture and associated stories to live on.
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