“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for May 25th in the MMXXVI spring show . . .

my series post for today at the link if you’d like to see it

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-f1a

Cabbage hot air balloon. 9.18. Monday. ca. 2020. Japanese. Tanaka Tatsuya, artist. via pinterest.

Lithograph pages from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company of Venezia, Italy. In the collections of the Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. The Cooper Hewitt has some of the lithographs from the same catalogue.

Lampadaro. Number 1. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Lithographic page from a trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-4056,-298,12125,5955&r=0
Lampadaro. Numbers 4 and 3. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=1&xywh=-1397,-1,7620,3743&r=0
Lampadaro. Numbers 5 and 9. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 12. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=4&xywh=-1589,-1,10324,5071&r=0
Mirrors. Numbers 1-5. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 14. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=9&xywh=-1564,0,10358,5087&r=0
Mirrors. Numbers 8-10. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 9. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=9&xywh=-1564,0,10358,5087&r=0
Mirrors. Number 13. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 20. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=9&xywh=-1564,0,10358,5087&r=0
Glassware. Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 20. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=9&xywh=-1564,0,10358,5087&r=0
Glass bottles, some being decanters. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 18. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=16&xywh=-1538,0,10185,5002&r=0
Number 711. Coppa da frutta ondulata; Number 712. Coppa da frutta; Number 713. Pezzo di Centro per tavola in Filigrana; Number 714. Pezzo di Centro per tavola in Filigrana; Number 728. Number 729. Candelabro per tavola a 3 lumi; Number 730. Candelabro per tavola a 6 lumi. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer.Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=9&xywh=-1564,0,10358,5087&r=0
Specimens of Tinted Glassware. Giorgio Corradini, (Litografia Corradini), Venezia, lithographer. Tavola Number 17. Lithographic page from a ca. 1860s-1880s trade catalogue put out by Stabilimento Salviati and Company Glass of Venezia, Italy. Collections of the Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://cmog.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/UniversalViewer/01CORNING_INST/1261562240004126?c=&m=&s=&cv=9&xywh=-1564,0,10358,5087&r=0

Visions of mid century luxuriousness by Albert Van Luit who dressed up Hollywood. Born in Cleveland Ohio, Albert Van Luit relocated himself to southern California at a youthful age. His wallcoverings defined mid century luxury interior design from the 1950s to the 1970s. These images are in the Huntington Library and were shot by Maynard Parker.

Dining room and wallpaper: Wallpaper setups in the Robertson store decorated by Mary Jane Carson, and at a decorator show. In an envelope labeled “Robertson window by Mary Jane Carson/Booths at Sports arena”. Los Angeles, California, where the Albert Van Luit and Company Complex was located. June 1964 image. American. Maynard Parker, photographer with this image being part of a photo shoot for Albert Van Luit which is archived at the Huntington. Originally under copyright. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/17906/rec/24
Wallpaper Setups. Presumably photographed at the Albert Van Luit and Company Complex in Los Angeles as a different location is not given. California, USA. March 28, 1961 image. American. Color transparency. Maynard Parker, photographer with this image being part of a collection of photographs and color transparencies shot for Albert Van Luit that is archived at the Huntington. Originally under copyright. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/17869/rec/25
Cannell and Chaffin. Display booth and Wallpaper: Wallpaper setups at decorator’s show at Hollywood Palladium. Hollywood, California USA. June 24, 1962 image. American. Photographed by Maynard Parker for Albert Van Luit and Company. Part of a Van Luit and Maynard Parker archive at the Huntington Library. Originally under copyright. Fair use license. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/17913/rec/28
Ruth Brand: Display booth and Wallpaper: Wallpaper setups at decorator’s show at the Hollywood Palladium. Hollywood, California USA. June 24, 1962 image. American. Photographed by Maynard Parker for Albert Van Luit and Company. Part of a Van Luit and Maynard Parker archive at the Huntington Library. Originally under copyright. Fair use license. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/17911/rec/30
Newport Bluffs Model Apartments (Living Room). Newport Beach, California USA. June 1965 image. American. Photographed by Maynard Parker for Albert Van Luit and Company. Part of a Van Luit and Maynard Parker archive at the Huntington Library. Originally under copyright. Fair use license. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/20089/rec/60

Learn a bit more about Albert Van Luit, the business he created and the people who worked for him here https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/discover-lgbtqia-los-angeles-albert-van-luit-complex

Off to a fashioncade. I don’t think they have these any more but it sounds like it was similar to streaming designer runway shows on vogue.com but in real time wearing a girdle and a string of pearls out at the country club or the home of the president of the PTA . From TESSA, Digital Archives of the Los Angeles Public Library.

Fashions in furs with the photograph caption dated October 17 1957 and reading, “Presenting a pre-view of autumn furs to be shown in the “Future Unlimited Fashion Fair” sponsored by Encino Woman’s Club are Mmes. I. L. Bagwell, president; C. W. Hartford, F. Norwood Yale and Miss Carroll Hunter, from left. Benefit fashioncade on Oct. 31 at Sportsmen’s Lodge will aid ‘Futures Unlimited.’” Ed J. Clarke, photographer for the Valley Times newspaper. TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright in 1957. Fair use license. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/55626/rec/4
Fashioncade of furs with the photograph caption dated February 25, 1955 and reading, “Mrs. Ben Pannell, seated, who always thought just any fur coat would be nice, seems puzzled when she sees an array of garments dating from 1890 to modern times. Modeling the coats from left are Mmes. Calvin Glendenning, Don Barnett, Nick George, Don Furst, Win Hovey and Roy Barron. The fur pieces will be modeled at a benefit sponsored by Kappa Omicron of Epsilon Sigma Alpha.” Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright in 1955. Fair use license. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/68564/rec/1
Comic Relief with the photograph caption reading July 16, 1958 and reading “Mrs. Ruth Litt in old fashioned swim-suit, prepares to ‘get in the swim’ while Mmes. Norma Miller and Barbara Kaufman, from left, cheer from side-lines. Trio will model in aquatic fashioncade at July 23 membership swim party of Elana Group of San Fernando Valley Chapter of Hadassah.” Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright in 1958. Fair use license. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/63107/rec/7
Fashion pageant with the photograph caption dated August 12, 1959 and reading “Valley members of the Daughters of Penelope inspect decor for fashioncade which will highlight Aug. 16-23 supreme convention in Ambassador Hotel. From left are Mmes. Nick Zafiris, George Shanis and George J. Brotsis.” Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright in 1959. Fair use license. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/126085/rec/8
Here Comes the Bride with the photograph caption dated May 8, 1957 and reading, “Mrs. Lou Shields, foreground, displays lovely bride doll door prize for May 13 fashioncade of Sherman Oaks School mothers. Left to right, background, Mmes. Louis Marino and Rad Robinson plan arrangements; Mmes. Nell W. Hanner and Marion C. Beatty admire a doll. Event at Mrs. Beatty’s Encino home will feature spring styles.” Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Under copyright in 1957. Fair use license.

FYI these are 1950s furs to go with the 1950s ladies wearing them in the pictures. Why I think the images are all right to use. If they were recent, I wouldn’t.

More Hawaiian Fish by David Starr Jordan and  Barton Warren Evermann. Imagery from “Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume XXIII for 1903” (Issued July 29, 1905) and published in Washington DC. Part I, “The Shore Fishes.” In the Smithsonian collections since at least 1913.

Bull. U.S.F.C. 1903. Hippocampus Hilonis (Hawaiian seahorse). Jordan and Everman Type. Image 200 of Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume XXIII for 1903 (Issued July 29, 1905), and published by the Government Printing Office, Washington DC. Part I, The Shore Fishes. David Starr Jordan and  Barton Warren Evermann et al, authors. In the Smithsonian collections since at least 1913. https://archive.org/details/aquaticresources01jord/page/n199/mode/1up
Echidna Nebulosa (Ahl) – Puhi Kapa (reduced one third). – A. H. Baldwin ad. nat. del. (ad naturam delineavit) – Julius Bien and Company, Lithographers, New York. Image 741 of Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume XXIII for 1903 (Issued July 29, 1905), and published by the Government Printing Office, Washington DC. Part I, The Shore Fishes. David Starr Jordan and  Barton Warren Evermann et al, authors. In the Smithsonian collections since at least 1913. https://archive.org/details/aquaticresources01jord/page/n740/mode/1up
Holocentrus Ensifer Jordan and Evermann – Type Ala Ihi. Natural size. A. H. Baldwin ad. nat. del. (ad naturam delineavit) – Julius Bien and Company, Lithographers, New York. Image 761 of Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume XXIII for 1903 (Issued July 29, 1905), and published by the Government Printing Office, Washington DC. Part I, The Shore Fishes. David Starr Jordan and  Barton Warren Evermann et al, authors. In the Smithsonian collections since at least 1913. https://archive.org/details/aquaticresources01jord/page/n760/mode/1up
Cheilinus Bimaculatus – Cuvier and Valenciennes. C. B. Hudson ad. nat. del. (ad naturam delineavit) – Julius Bien and Company, Lithographers, New York. Image 814 of Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume XXIII for 1903 (Issued July 29, 1905), and published by the Government Printing Office, Washington DC. Part I, The Shore Fishes. David Starr Jordan and  Barton Warren Evermann et al, authors. In the Smithsonian collections since at least 1913. https://archive.org/details/aquaticresources01jord/page/n814/mode/1up
Zebrasoma Flavescens – Bennett – Laipala. Natural size. C. B. Hudson ad. nat. del. (ad naturam delineavit) – Julius Bien and Company, Lithographers, New York. Image 856 of Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume XXIII for 1903 (Issued July 29, 1905), and published by the Government Printing Office, Washington DC. Part I, The Shore Fishes. David Starr Jordan and  Barton Warren Evermann et al, authors. In the Smithsonian collections since at least 1913. https://archive.org/details/aquaticresources01jord/page/n856/mode/1up

Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds, for May 19th in the 2026 spring show . . .

my series post for today posted to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-ca7

Optical shop, Children’s Nebraska Specialty Pediatric Clinic. Omaha Nebraska USA. Image ca. 2026. Faux miniature. Photo credit and © 2026 Children’s Nebraska. Taken from their website.

A major need to sparkle up. A date with the man in the Arrow Shirt advertisements and a bank balance to go with. Not needed now but after you get through shopping at Asprey’s every girl needs a bit of help. Imagery from Asprey’s 1925 catalogue, part of the collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris.

Asprey and Company Ltd, Bond Street, London. Front cover of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0001.simple.selectedTab=thumbnail
Diamond flexible bracelets in diamond and platinum. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 7 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0007.simple.selectedTab=thumbnail
Sporting brooches in 18 carat gold. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 14 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0014.simple.selectedTab=thumbnail
Chinese jade and diamond set jewellery – examples of the artistic combination of specially selected jade and diamonds in modern designs. All mounted in platinum. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 15 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0015.simple.selectedTab=thumbnail
Gold and platinum chain bags and purses. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 27 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0027.simple.highlight=prism.selectedTab=thumbnail
Asprey’s new woven gold cigarette cases. Also an image of a Specimen cigarette pochette in Woven Gold with Designs to Customers’ own Ideas and Estimates submitted. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 29 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0029.simple.highlight=prism.selectedTab=thumbnail
Travelling and table clocks. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 53 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0053.simple.highlight=prism.selectedTab=thumbnail
A large selection of writing sets. Asprey and Company Limited, New Bond Street, London, W.I. – Telephone – Gerrard 8583. – Net cash prices. Image 67 of a 1925 Asprey and Company Ltd. commercial catalogue. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Image © Aspreys though it may be out of copyright by now. Fair use license. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002164311/v0067.simple.highlight=prism.selectedTab=thumbnail