Queen Mary's Doll House is probably the most magnificent display of beauty, detail, and creativity of each dollhouse in history. King George V of the United Kingdom presented this house to the Queen Mary in 1924 as a gift from the people of England to reveal to future generations as royalty lived during the twentieth century.
? Princess Marie Louise was the first to face the idea of creating such a masterpiece of Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of England's top architects time. Grappling with the concept, Lutyens immediately exposed on the design of a house that would fit for a queen, not the expenses spared. He wanted to create a fully furnished house in miniature, which was accurate to items found in Windsor Castle, to the smallest detail.
? Built in 1:12 scale and standing nearly five feet tall, the doll house forty room began to take shape. Lutyens self-employed artists and craftsmen working on the inside. To give an idea of the detail and care given to these premises, built a front lobby with a full-scale vortex on the second floor, a library with shelves walnut, pantry, a servant with all the modern amenities of the day, and bedroom with a queen canopy bed, the night sky painted on the ceiling.
? These little touches alone would be sufficient to make the Queen Mary's Doll House miniatures one of the most impressive ever. Sir Lutyens had plans that were more ambitious.
? Insisted that it is necessary that everything inside the house to be fully functional. Hired electricians to make every light and lamp work, plumbing to make every flush toilet and tap running, and craftsmen for the two elevators stop on every floor. He went so far as to have a gramophone twelfth scale constructed to function as normal when he played.
? Sir Lutyens had furniture talent of the day are small replicas of the furniture found in Windsor Castle. He had all cupboards full of canned foods bearing the logos of popular brands are found in the kitchen the true queen. Had sheets, curtains, clothes, toys, nursery products, and rugs are created to scale. The cellar basement contained miniature bottles of wine with labels filled with real value thimble of wine actually advertised. The bathroom also had his own roll of toilet paper.
? Over one hundred and seventy writers, by Poet Laureate Robert Bridges of Rudyard Kipling, were commissioned to write books in miniature for the Library. Well-known artists and art watercolors provided for the Queen Mary's Doll House.
? As the project immensely, Sir Lutyens chaired a Dolls' House Committee to oversee all these artists, writers, and businesses anxious not to provide services to its vision.
? No detail has been forgotten. There was Royal Doulton and Wedgewood China, a Singer sewing machine in the laundry room, utensils, ornaments, napkins, stamp album, and a snail crawl a leaf in the garden.
? By the end of the project, about fifteen hundred people participated in the creation of the dollhouse. Queen Mary has a great joy when he saw his gift, and ruled the house shared with everyone, so that people can see and appreciate the ingenuity of the English people.
? He made his first appearance in 1924 at the British Empire Exhibition, attracting two million visitors before it was transferred to Windsor Castle. There's the doll's house remains today for anyone to see and enjoy.