The Queen’s Dolls’ House by Lucinda Lambton, Royal Collection Publications, $35
When you’re a royal princess after the ultimate dolls’ house who do you turn to? Who else but the country’s top architect, the guy whose day job is to design stately homes. And so it was that Princess Marie Louise, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter commissioned Sir Edwin Lutyens to make a dolls’ house as her gift for Queen Mary. Mary loved objets d’art, the more diminutive the better, so this was sure to be a hit.
The resulting piece finished in 1924 – now owned by Queen Elizabeth II – is dazzling and the subject of this delightful hardback filled with photographs of the house’s rooms and garden.
Marvel at the beautiful classically-painted ceilings, the library of miniature tomes, the gardens with 1920 Atco lawnmower and nesting blackbird and the night nursery with royal cradle.
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