Dollhouses, Miniature Kitchens, and Shops from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

by Susan Hight Rountree

Book Overview

Visitors have long loved the two dollhouses featured in this book. The handsome Morris-Canby-Rumford dollhouse belonged to one family from the time it was built and furnished in 1820 until it was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879351594
• ISBN13: 9780879351595
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

Charming historical dollhouses

This book presents a charming look at some important historical dollhouses in the Rockefeller Folk Art Center. Good pictures and texts. Not useful if you are looking for realistic projects for your own dollhouse crafting hobby, but for the historian, this is a wonderful look at historical dolls, dollhouses, and furnishings that were used over generations as toys and learning devices for girls. For extravagant historical dollhouse rooms created by and for an adult collector (that you would perhaps want to emulate in your own hobby), see another book, Miniature Rooms, about the Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago.

An Invaluable Research Tool!

I consider this book to be one of the best dollhouse references out there. Every page has color photos. Many of the furniture pieces are photographed individually. Each photograph is clear and detailed. The author is careful to note when a piece is original, antique, or modern. Everything in this book is well-researched and documented. You could carve replica furniture pieces from the photographs in here, they are that good! Needless to say, the houses featured in here are gorgeous in their own right. My favorite part of this book are the great photos of the Grodnertal peg-wooden dolls. This book contains some of the best Grodnertal photos I've ever seen!