Vivian Greene - Topic No. 1 in my dollīs house museum (More topics will follow) My great love and my great respect within the scope of my collection of dollīs houses belong to the famous english dollīs houses collector and expert on this topic, Vivian Greene. She belongs to the great and enthusiatic collectors of old dollīs houses and she already has written a book about these worlds a miniature. Over many decades she "discovered" those dollīs houses, she restored and decorated them up lovingly if inventory was no longer available. With it she developed a sensibility and feeling just as hardly any collector will ever reach it again. In nearly all publications and books, the old and new ones, you will find her houses. Beyond that she published decisive and world famous books about dollīs houses and her collection. She has lead a beautiful private museum in England: The Rotunda Dollīs House Museum. Some years ago her Dollīs houses have been autioned in a big english auctioneers. Her motivation to separate herself from those treasures we do not know. I had the great luck to acquire some of the dolls and inventory objects from her wonderful dollīs houses for my own collection. Here you can find some photographs of the dolls and their "Home" at Vivian Greene who found a new home in my dollīs houses. I got much more dolls and inventory objects from her which I would like to show time by time on the news in their old surrounding. You will find the dolls in their new home when you look my own dollīs houses attentive. The porcelain doll from FARM HOUSE in detail and on the second photograph in her old surrounding.
Farm House is dated from the late 18th century and it has been supplement and partly restored by Viviand very kindly.Today you will find this doll in my dollīs house WOODLAND TOWER* wich is dated from the late 19th century. It is my most valuable possession and one of the very expressive dolls comes from Vivians dollīs house: DURWARD`S HALL, an old wax doll which has been dressed by Vivian itself and a Bisque Baby which is my pleasure to own it.
Both of the dolls are in my dollīs house: EPPING HOUSE which has built and made after my sketches from my husband and an english carpenter. This house has got the size of the old, big and manorial dollīs houses and you will find it under the photographs of my dollīs houses with the detailed description about the sizes and inventory. In the so called STACK HOUSE from Viviann Greene their were other dolls made of porcelain wich I would like to show you in their old surroundings.
Here you can see the two beautiful and old dolls in detail on a wonderful and old settee together with a tiny Charlotte doll.
At the end I would like you to show three other beautiful and old dolls from the possession of Vivian Greene which live today in my dollīs house EPPING HOUSE. They are sitting on a very old and beautiful Waltershausen settee which is part of the whole furnishment in EPPING HOUSE. This furniture have been auctioned from an american museum. At first she came into the ownership of Lord Snowdon who used her for some photograps where she portrayed some most expensive jewelley. Today those lovely Walterhausen furniture belong to my possession.
On this way I would like to thank you for the many and beautiful inspirations Vivian Greene gave me and my love to those dollīs houses. Dollīs houese are an important witness of epochs and generations passed by. They give us some exactly hints about the life and surroundings of their time. So should we if we got the luck to own some of those old treasures, we should use them c arefully and take care of them to keep them for the next generations for some pleasure and information. You have to think about that most of those houses survived the two world wars more or less. Thousands of little miniatures and furnishment habve been preserved of the storms of the time. I hope that many generations will find their pleasure for and with those evidences of craft art and talent. Most of all I wish that many chidren have the luck to own a dollīs house and perhaps to pass it on to the enext generations. The wonderful things in life which outlast the time and us. They will astonish the following generations in amazement and admiration. So I wish much fun with all of those dollīs house pictures. In time, it will be my pleasure to give some interested viewers some tricks and tips to collect and restoring dollīs houses and dollīs rooms. Yours faithfully Katharina Gerstorfer |
