Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Gerrit Rietveld Dolls House in the Brooklyn Museum

Daddytypes posted a couple of days ago about a wonderful dolls house built to plans by Rietveld (thanks, Greg). The dolls house is now in Brooklyn Museum, apparently - I wonder where the plans are?


See the Daddytypes blog post for the history of the house and another photo.
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7 comments:

  1. callsmallAugust 12, 2009 at 12:22 AM

    Hi Rebecca! I wrote about this on my blog and got a response from someone who said that the museum was restoring it for display, here:
    http://call-small.blogspot.com/2009/03/rietveld-in-brooklyn.html. Wonderful house, isn't it???

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  2. PetraAugust 12, 2009 at 12:44 AM

    I love this dollhouse. Makes me dream of a bigger flat with space to give a dollhouse a good place in good light and the possibility of "playing" on every side, not only on one :-(.
    This daddytype-blog is very interesting, I think, I will follow it too.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  3. RebeccaAugust 12, 2009 at 12:55 AM

    Thanks, Callsmall! Don't know how I missed it on your blog, but I'll check it out now. I'm glad to hear it's being restored - and maybe one day I'll get to the museum and see it!

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  4. RebeccaAugust 12, 2009 at 1:03 AM

    Oh yes, Oese, wouldn't it be wonderful? Enough room to display them well and get at all sides easily. - You can do this for your dolls house dolls houses, probably!
    Daddytypes writes about many things, and I'm not interested in all the topics he covers - but he does often post about vintage toys, including dolls houses, and vintage children books, as well as vintage furniture for children. And he does a lot of research for his posts, so they are very interesting to read.

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  5. PubdollAugust 12, 2009 at 5:41 AM

    Beautiful house, and I love the furniture I'm able to see in it as well! Thank you so much for sharing Rebecca!

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  6. BusyLizzieAugust 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM

    thank you for your comment on the blog, glad you like the china. I will share some of my other faves soon. I have found a box for the dolls house.. BUT need to check the pricing for you... Lizzie x

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  7. DollMumAugust 20, 2009 at 9:09 AM

    Very interesting house, I like the fact it even has a garden out the front.

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