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A House Fit for a Queen
Queen Mary’s Doll House is arguably the most magnificent display of beauty, detail, and creativity of any dollhouse in history. King George V of the United Kingdom presented this house to Queen Mary in 1924 as a gift from the people of England to reveal to future generations how royalty lived during the early twentieth century.
Princess Marie Louise was the first to broach the idea of creating such a masterpiece with Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of England’s top architects of the time. Taken by the notion, Lutyens immediately set forth on designing a house that would be fit for a queen, no expenses spared. He wanted to create a fully furnished miniature home that was accurate to items found in Windsor Castle, down to the finest detail.
Built at 1:12 scale and standing nearly three and a half feet high, the forty room doll house began to take shape. Lutyens employed artists and artisans to work on the interior. To provide an idea of the detail and care given to these rooms, they built a front foyer complete with a swirling staircase to the second floor, a library with walnut bookcases, a servant’s pantry equipped with all modern conveniences of the day, and a Queen’s bedroom with a four-poster bed, the night sky painted on the ceiling.
These little touches alone would be enough to make the Queen Mary’s Doll House one of the most impressive miniatures ever created. Sir Lutyens had plans that were more ambitious.
He insisted it necessary that everything within the house be fully functional. He hired electricians to make every light and chandelier work, plumbers to make every toilet flush and tap run, and crafters to have the two elevators stop at every floor. He even went so far as to have a one-twelfth scale gramophone built to work as a normal one when played.
Sir Lutyens had talented furniture makers of the day make small replicas of the furniture found in Windsor Castle. He had all cupboards stocked with canned goods that bore logos of popular brands found in the real Queen’s kitchen. He had linens, curtains, clothes, nursery toys, and rugs created to scale. The basement wine cellar contained miniature bottles of wine with real labels filled with a thimble's worth of the actual advertised wine. The lavatory even had its own roll of toilet paper.
Over one hundred and seventy writers, from Poet Laureate Robert Bridges to Rudyard Kipling, were commissioned to write miniature books for the Library. Well-known artists supplied watercolours and art for the Queen Mary’s Doll House.
As the project ballooned, Sir Lutyens chaired a Dolls’ House Committee to oversee all these artists, writers, and companies eager to lend there services to his vision.
No detail was forgotten. There was Royal Doulton and Wedgewood China, a Singer sewing machine in the linen room, utensils, ornaments, napkins, stamp albums, and a little snail crawling on a leaf in the garden.
By the end of the project, nearly fifteen hundred people were involved in the creation of the dollhouse. Queen Mary took great joy when she saw her gift, and ruled this house shared with everyone so that people might see and appreciate the ingenuity of the English people.
It made its first appearance in 1924 at the British Empire Exhibition, attracting two million visitors before it was relocated to Windsor Castle. There the dollhouse remains today for anyone to see and enjoy.
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Artistic Treasure, Enamel Watch
Watch, is not a simple time tool any more. It is an important adornment to express your social state and taste. The brand, the craftsmanship, and the design, nowhere is not to tell people who you are, especially to the celebrities. So, wearing a right watch to match you does not mean anything yet.
Well, what kind of watch is a right one? Some people think up a method once for ever- the luxury brand watch! Woo, it is a good idea. But if you do pay your a little attention about the watch, such as visiting some high museums, you will find enamel watch is their favorite. Not only the high museums, but also many celebrities collect the enamel watches, such as Einstein, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Queen Victoria, M.Maria Sk?odowska-Curie.
About a century ago, in pocket watch times, enamel has been used in the watch face. Enamel is really a thin layer of glass fused by heat on to the surface of a metal. The word enamel comes from the High German word “smelzan” and later from the Old French “esmail”. The Collins English Dictionary defines enamel as “a colored glassy substance, transparent or opaque, fused to the surface of articles made of metal, glass etc. for ornament or protection”.
About 400 years ago, the pocket watch is just a plaything to aristocracy, particularly the enamel painting watch. In modern times, as the aristocracy’s decay, it is never hear of changing an estate for an enamel pocket watch. In the Great Exhibition of London, on August, 18, 1851, Queen Victoria chose a Patek Philippe enamel pocket watch, and had been it over 50 years. This enamel blue is similar with the color of Queen Victoria’s pupils.
Nowadays, the enamel watch is not only a watch, but also a work of art. Its artistic value is much higher than the intrinsic. Following articles will introduce some classic enamel watches for you.
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