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Category / Teeny Tiny Stuff

The Cutest & Tiniest Cars Ever Made

Let’s talk cars. Cute ones. Like they used to make ’em. BMW Isetta, 1957 It’s said to be the very best microcar of its time. BMW teamed up with Milan-based refrigerator company, Iso Spa of all things on this one, thus the name “Isetta”, meaning “little Iso”. Probably the most unusual thing about it is the…

The Fantastic Folding Mini-Motel Caravan, 1959

You probably know by now that caravans are one of my favourite things and with summer holidays and road trip wanderlust in the air, I’d like to present my latest find, the (fantastic) folding Mini-Motel caravan. Somewhat forgotten in automobile history, I came across it in this terribly English promotional feature from 1959 through the archive of British Pathé… The Mini-Motel,…

The Town with a Subculture of Secret Tiny Doors

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, a series of what is known as ‘fairy doors’, began popping up around the area in 2005, built into buildings, shops and restaurants and quickly acquired a cult following. Father and children’s book author, Jonathan B. Wright, believed to be behind the installation of the whimsical tiny portals, is kind of…

Meet the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe

For those whose taste in fairytales favours a darker touch, we’re traveling to the far reaches of Eastern Europe, and into the enchanting world of animator Jiří Trnka. The late Czech animator (whose name is pronounced “Yershy Trinka”) created nearly two-dozen films over his lifetime, from folksy gems like Grandfather Planted a Beet (1945) to the…

The USB Sticks Hidden in Walls Across the World

Five years ago, Berlin-based media artist Aram Bartholl launched a project called ‘Dead Drops‘. I know, I’m a little late in taking notice, but the trouble is, Adam’s project is rather hard to spot and despite having gone global, is in fact, very well hidden– in plain sight… ‘Dead Drops’ is essentially an anonymous file-sharing…

Oh, just a Miniature Global Village in China

Hey, you know what’s better than actually travelling the world and seeing its wonders and historic sights first hand? Hitting up a Chinese miniature theme park, of course … ‘Windows of the World’ is a 480,000 square-meter global village theme park in Shenzhen, China, accommodating over a hundred miniature replicas of world famous historical sights. A fantasy…

Stop Everything and Check Out these Miniature Book Houses

So here’s something that absolutely needs a place in my cabinet of curiosities– book houses! Real books, “hollowed-out” and filled with a miniature vignette setting, complete with tiny scaled wallpaper and parquet flooring. They come from a little-known artist I found in the far corners of the net, Shannon Moore, who has been working with…

The Lost Art of the Cutaway

I could say, that as a kid, I used to love looking at cutaway illustrations, but the thing is: I still think they’re just the greatest thing ever. With cutaway art, you get to examine and explore miniature hidden worlds behind-the-scenes and under an x-ray. The best stuff surely came out of the mid twentieth…

Stop Everything and Check out these Vintage Suitcase Dollhouses

Well this just about rolls everything I adore into one perfect little package– miniature crafts, the golden age of travel and tiny fairy doors to another world. Marisa and David of Queanbeyan, Australia make dollhouses out of beautiful old suitcases they come across. They love to make old things new again and combine David’s skills in…

The Kneeling Boutiques of Bulgaria

Blink –or hold your head high– and you’ll miss it. Hiding below your eye-level on the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, these secret little window shops called ‘klek‘ (kneel) are as common as the average newsagent. The name itself derives quite simply from the fact that customers are brought to their knees in order to shop there. The concept arrived…

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