“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for May 13th in the 2026 spring show . . .

my series post at the link for today.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-569

Staircase in a residence in Brooklyn, New York. Faux miniature. 2020 image. Kabir Affonso, photographer. via architecturaldigest.com.

Bits and pieces of the Levant and Eastern Europe back when the Ottomans ran it. Imagery from Luigi Mayer’s “Interesting views in Turkey : selected from the original drawings, taken for Sir Robert Ainslie.” Published in 1819 in London. Sir Robert Ainslie was a diplomat stationed in Constantinople, the British ambassador to the Porte from 1776 to 1794.

Ciala Kavak. Page 34 of Luigi Mayer’s Interesting Views in Turkey, selected from the original drawings, taken for Sir Robert Ainslie. Printed in London in 1819 by Robert Bowyer by Bensley and Son, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Collections of the George Washington University Libraries. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/39020024846001-interestingview/page/n34/mode/1up

Piccolo Bent. Page 48 of Luigi Mayer’s Interesting Views in Turkey, selected from the original drawings, taken for Sir Robert Ainslie. Printed in London in 1819 by Robert Bowyer by Bensley and Son, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Collections of the George Washington University Libraries. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/39020024846001-interestingview/page/n47/mode/1up

Kaskerat. Page 65 of Luigi Mayer’s Interesting Views in Turkey, selected from the original drawings, taken for Sir Robert Ainslie. Printed in London in 1819 by Robert Bowyer by Bensley and Son, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Collections of the George Washington University Libraries. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/39020024846001-interestingview/page/n65/mode/1up
Mosque in Latachia. Page 83 of Luigi Mayer’s Interesting Views in Turkey, selected from the original drawings, taken for Sir Robert Ainslie. Printed in London in 1819 by Robert Bowyer by Bensley and Son, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Collections of the George Washington University Libraries. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/39020024846001-interestingview/page/n83/mode/1up

Luigi Mayer did other illustrated books about places in the Ottoman Empire including one with plates of places in Palestine which I have blogged about here before. Just search on “Luigi Mayer” and it’ll pull them up. Mayer was a German artist. There were of course many very talented Ottoman artists but most of their work was for the Ottoman market not the Western one Mayer’s work was aimed at.

Saturday night flirting over and studying lines instead. Off to try out for one of the school plays and hoping for a role with a cute costume. Theatricals (and one Hallowe’en Masquerade) imagery from old yearbooks of Saint Genevieve-of-the-Pines, Asheville, North Carolina for the years 1917 and 1920. These are all from scans on the Internet Archive but I found out about them from @ncdigitalheritagecenter on Instagram.

Cast picture, “The Chimes of Normandy.” Page 71 of the 1920 edition of “Le Flambeau,” the yearbook of Saint-Genevieve-of-the-Pines School, Asheville, North Carolina. North Carolina Digital Heritage Center via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/leflambeau192004stge/page/n70/mode/1up
Cast picture, “Esther.” Page 72 of the 1920 edition of “Le Flambeau,” the yearbook of Saint-Genevieve-of-the-Pines School, Asheville, North Carolina. North Carolina Digital Heritage Center via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/leflambeau192004stge/page/n72/mode/1up
Cast picture, “Princess Chrysanthemum.” Page 74 of the 1920 edition of “Le Flambeau,” the yearbook of Saint-Genevieve-of-the-Pines School, Asheville, North Carolina. North Carolina Digital Heritage Center via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/leflambeau192004stge/page/n74/mode/1up
The Hallowe’en Masquerade. Page 69 of the 1917 edition of “Le Flambeau,” the yearbook of Saint-Genevieve-of-the-Pines School, Asheville, North Carolina. North Carolina Digital Heritage Center via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/leflambeauserial01stge/page/n69/mode/1up

“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for May 6th as the lilac begins to bloom and the year 2026 heads towards summer . . .

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-7e7

Summer in the Winter from a series of dioramas inside vintage ring boxes. 2015. Canadian Trinidadian. Curtis Talwst Santiago, artist. curtissantiago.art. via thevintagenews.com.

“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” for Monday May 4th in the MMXXVI spring show . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. Around 22 images in all one with a video clip link.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-263

Performance space seating, Institute of Contemporary Art, Seaport District, Boston, Massachusetts USA. 2022 image. Faux miniature. From the Instagram of the Echelon Seaport Hotel.