August 8, 2023 by Nicole Cooley
"More often than not, today’s miniature houses and furnishings don’t fit the 19th-century Victorian style commonly associated with “dollhouse”. As Darren Scala, owner of D Thomas Fine Miniatures, who coined the hashtag #rethinkdollhouse, likes to say: “This is not your grandmother’s dollhouse.”
Not incidentally, millennials are the demographic now most engaged in online miniature worlds, a place where they can easily own a home. How do they imagine it? The younger generation of miniacs is inspired by contemporary interior design from the 1950s to the present. Darren Scala explained to me: “The move to the current mini home trends is so much about this new generation making it all their own, expressing themselves in a new way based on their own likes dislikes and what’s actually available to them since there is so much more out there for them than what older generations had, which was only the Victorian style.” That is, so much more available in the miniature world, not the actual world in which we live.
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