Queen Mary's Dolls' House

Queen Mary 's Dolls ' House is from the 1920s derived by Edwin Lutyens designed (not built for gaming purposes ) miniature house in 1:12 scale, which can be visited at Windsor Castle.

Queen Mary, consort of King George V, though was the namesake of the object, but the idea came from her cousin, Princess Marie Louise. This brought the leading architect Sir Edwin Lutyens at the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1921 to design the model of a " modern " luxury villa. Princess Marie Louise was also able to attract leading artists and craftspeople for the project. The "gift of the British people to his queen " should show you the best and most modern British goods and furnishings of the era. Thus, for example the garage model versions former British car brands such as Daimler, Rolls- Royce, Vauxhall, Sunbeam and Lanchester. The miniaturized products were either settled down by the undertakings concerned themselves or by professional model makers, for example, the company Twining Models of Northampton. The approximately one meter high model house was shown at the British Empire Exhibition 1924/5 and is currently on display at Windsor Castle. It is worth noting the extraordinary detail of the model - even elevators and water flushes the toilet systems work. Well-known writers such as Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote special lyrics for the books of the miniature house, known painters gave corresponding images. It is striking that the neoclassical building of modernity but not the Belle Epoque style is assigned to before 1914, and thus documents the far dominant in the interwar conservative tastes of the British upper class.