Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Dollhouses

Okay my sis is having an infant and so I've been looking at toys, unfort. it's a boy so my expertise is limited. I was always a dolls/dollhouse/Barbie/American girl/paper dolls/princess coloring book type of girl.

I was super spoiled and I didn't even know it because I went to school with some seriously rich bitches...little girls. This was my dollhouse:





It's French, made by Playmobile: everything is movable, I could disassemble the whole house and reassemble it, and of course I had the additional floors. Typing this is really making me want to get it out of storage actually. I played with this like nobody's business, I mean it was in my room until high school when I got really cool and boxed up most of my dolls, and I say most, just most.

Dollhouses are tight because essentially you get to play God, it is just like the Sims etc. but you get to make up all the scenarios in your head without the programmer constraints or all the dumb money/hunger/life problems.

The point of me writing though is because I just ran across the most bad ass doll house of all time. It marries everything I love about doll houses (I have something with miniature anythings-like the miniature tent displays at walmart/target-anybody?) with my current sensibilities towards modernist architecture. Basically this dollhouse is my dreamhouse, so if I owned it I could fantasize literally about how my dream life would be, not only the scenarios but in a setting that is truly baller, it even has a baller name "Villa Sibi":




As a kid I preferred plastic everything to wood, but how elegant is this? I want it.

1 comment:

Chappell said...

If you go to Hobby Lobby (which i'm only sure you do because WHO DOESN'T) they have this really baller doll furniture section. They have this stuff that's supposed to look like a real hardwood floor. i get tempted every time. I think it would be really tight to build a Frank Lloyd Wright doll house.