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Category / Teeny Tiny Stuff

Making a Miniature World for Marie Antoinette

Let them eat tiny cakes! Just when you think the world of miniatures couldn’t get any more impressive, you stumble upon the exquisite work of June Clinkscales. The Californian miniature artist has the kind of artisanal skills that we might have believed were almost lost to the world – not to mention, she’s working on…

Not Everyone has a “Miniatures Room”, but this Guy Does

Thierry Bosquet has decorated the world’s most iconic theatres. He grew up backstage at the opera house in Brussels where his grandfather was a director, before moving to Italy to make a name for himself as a set designer. “My parents brought me up by taking me to visit all the palaces and gardens in Italy,…

Stop Everything, Live Vicariously in Sweden’s Miniature Mouse World

For a brief moment, why not forget all the troubles of the big ol’ world out there and downsize in this tiny haven built for mice. Sweden has its own kind of Banksy you see; an anonymous artists collective which has been quietly installing miniature mouse-themed urban infrastructure, hidden in plain sight on the streets…

Oh, Just the World’s Tiniest (Hand-Knitted) Sweaters

One Size Fits None for Althea Crome, the fiber artist who has been knitting miniature – and micro-mini – sweaters fit for a size range that we’ll just call “ladybug (XS) to mouse (XL).” As if knitting a 5mm turtleneck wasn’t hard enough, Crome’s designs are often imbued with varied, intricate artistic symbols inspired by…

Olympia Le-Tan transformed “Don’t be a Tourist” Books into Clutch Bags!

As an author and purveyor of curiosities, if there was ever a collaboration to be had, this was always it! So it is with great honour that we reveal the Olympia Le-Tan x Don’t be a Tourist Limited Edition embroidered Clutch bags, now available for curious collectors at OlympiaLeTan.com.

And Finally, the Miniature Mouse Village of Your Dreams

Welcome to Mouseland, an adventurously cosy town where frogs take tea on lily-pads, mice set sail on miniature sailboats, and there are zero effs to give about anything in the real world that’s larger than a peanut. It’s the brainchild of Portland, Oregon-based author Maggie Rudy, who’s been making the mice for her children’s books…

And Now, Abandoned Dollhouses for your Inner Demon Child

Forget those twee little dollhouses from your childhood, we’re a tiny bit obsessed with the work of a truly twisted genius. Juli Steel is not your average miniaturist. A self-taught assemblage artist from Texas who goes by the alias of @TwistedCopperForest, like us, Juli has a weak spot for the forgotten and unloved things of…

Miniature Book Nooks Belong on Every Bookshelf, It’s Just a Matter of Time

The internet has officially discovered book nooks, AKA bookshelf inserts fashioned as portals to tiny imaginary worlds. BBC News and most recently Buzzfeed found out about the niche hobby, sending book lovers, miniature collectors and pretty much anyone with a penchant for quirky stuff on a wild internet goose chase. Because the fact is –…

Oh Me Oh My, Check out Every Room in this Gilded Age Dollhouse

You just never know what talent your next door neighbour might be hiding. Michael Guidry is a florist from Finleyville, Pennsylvania who has built a palatial Gilded Age dollhouse to rival the Queen of England’s. For Mike, this is a hobby, which he acquired when his father first made his sister a dollhouse as children. He began…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXIX)

1. Miniature Worlds inside Pocket Watches & Pendants By Gregory Grozos 2. Lough Key, a lake in Ireland How to visit. Photographed by Malte Heitmueller. 3. A Grand French chateau in Bordeaux has reopened as a hotel Following a full renovation, the centuries-old La Maison d’Estournel is once again opening its doors to guests visiting…

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