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Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House: A model home

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The Times
The library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House in 1924
The library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House in 1924
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From The Times: January 6, 1924

No mention yet made of the Queen’s Dolls’ House, with its rich treasures of art and literature, has been able to do justice to its amazing perfection and historical accuracy. The Dolls’ House is intended to serve as a model of contemporary domestic architecture as well as a permanent record of the furnishing and decorating of the kind of mansion in which the King and Queen of England might live in the year 1924. It will be shown to the public in a special pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition.

Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House was a “model of contemporary domestic architecture”
Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House was a “model of contemporary domestic architecture”
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Leading artists, authors and craftsmen, working under the stimulus of her Highness Princess Marie Louise and Sir Edwin Lutyens, RA, have been busy for two years in preparing this