MODERN EƆCENTRICS The miniaturist

IN A WORLD THAT CAN FEEL INCREASINGLY UNIFORM, WE'RE CELEBRATING THOSE HAPPILY DOING THINGS a bit differently . Meet the PEOPLE WHO ARE seriously PASSIONATE a bout their pastimes. PERHAPS THEY'LL PERSUADE YOU TO TRY something NEW?

Words: JULIAN OWEN

To many, the words ‘doll's house' conjure variants of the same image: a multifloored town house, each room laid out as realistically as possible, contents rendered to exact scale. Working to the common maxim of ‘the posher the better', the cognoscenti might hope to see, say, a wee servant ironing a tiny facsimile of The Times. Had Elizabeth Joseph followed such orthodoxy, it's unlikely that her take on the tradition would have been catapulted into the public domain. Instead, her striking creations have seen her appointed resident Miniaturist at London's Museum of the Home, leading workshops for anyone eager to hold the doll world in their hands. “I haven't come from that world of going to doll's house fairs and spending a fortune, so I haven't ended up being constrained by anybody's…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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