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Category / Teeny Tiny Stuff

The Real-Life Hotels and Miniatures from Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Dream

I‘m not sure what I thought Wes Anderson and his team of magic elves really did to create those unique, game-changing sets for The Grand Budapest Hotel, but miniatures hadn’t immediately come to mind … But of course! As it turns out, The Grand Budapest Hotel technically isn’t so grand. This week, The New York…

The Apocalypse that Shrunk South London

Not Chernobyl. Not a sunken cruise ship at the bottom of the ocean. In that order, those were my guesses as to what exactly I was looking at when I first squinted my eyes at these photographs. If you haven’t guessed yourself yet, this just about combines two of the most fascinating things to me; miniature art…

Communist Dollhouses: Stasi Chic in Miniature

Cold War-era furnishings, kitschy wallpaper and fine examples of mid-century architecture from the German Democratic Republic, there’s a huge collection of “Soviet chic” German dollhouses on Flickr, hailing from the short-lived era when East Germany was under communist rule, for all your nostalgic Stasi needs… Browse the full collection here.

Pull up a Seat at this Teeny Tiny Tiki Bar

Among my favourite things are tiki bars and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and I’ll basically explode with happiness. Not to mention that now I know how to make miniature cocktail umbrellas, should the situation ever arise where I might need one (ya just cut the original-sized ones down). And finally, yes, that hamster…

Lord of the Rings: Theo Fennell’s Miniature Gems

It’s not everyday you’ll find me blogging about luxury jewellery, well, in fact it’s never. But something shiny caught my eye today that lured me into unfamiliar territory. It was British jewellery designer Theo Fennell‘s secret garden ring… I remember walking down the Fulham Road in London where the Theo Fennell flagship store has stood for…

Check into a Tiny Paradise Resort

You already know I dig miniatures but another thing I particularly love is bonsai trees, so when you throw the two together, I’m going to get a little over excited. Today I found the work of Takanori Aiba, a Japanese wizard of miniature artistry with a specialty in making Bonsai treehouses and tiny tourist resorts from…

The Miniature Library of Forgotten Curiosities

If you can’t have your own velvet-curtained library complete with dusty volumes, mysterious documents and antique treasures, how about a miniature one? On my internet travels today, I stumbled upon the Etsy boutique of L. Delaney, artist and maker of tiny things. The pièce de résistance is this incredible one of a kind 1 inch…

The Tiniest House in London, possibly the World, is for Sale just shy of Half a Million Dollars

Come and take a tour of this one-bedroom London property up for sale, it’ll only take a second– no, literally. Despite its shortcomings (measuring in at just 17 square meters or 188 square feet), this compact little terraced house located near Angel in Islington, pretty much has everything you could possibly need in a London pied-a-terre (yes, I…

Stop Everything, it’s a Teeny Tiny Bird Town

This is very much one of those, “shutup and take my money” moments. And I don’t actually have a garden to put one of these things in, but minor details. I found this series of birdhouse shopfronts and eclectic homes while perusing Pinterest and sort of just lost it (the Route 66 Diner had me at hello).…

The Forgotten Book Painter

Have you ever found yourself doodling on the cover of a book, even just tracing over the lines of the artwork with your fingertips, or be it drawing moustaches with a permanent marker on magazine covers? I think we can safely say that American artist Joseph Decamillis has taken this practice to a whole new level……

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