Video: A dollhouse on the site of a dilapidated cottage: a miracle from Canadian artist Heather Benning
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Most girls in childhood dream of a fairy tale: a prince on a white horse, a sea of flowers and certainly a house, no worse than Barbie's. Most, having matured, remember this with a smile, knowing that in real life everything is completely different. And here Canadian artist Heather Benning managed not only to remain true to her childhood fantasies, but also to translate them into reality. For several years, from a dilapidated cottage where she spent her childhood, she built a real Dollhouse!
The house, which was destined to become a "doll", Heather discovered in 2005 near the city of Brandon. The artist, without hesitation, turned to the appropriate authorities and found out that the house had been abandoned since the 60s of the last century, despite the fact that it had real owners. Going to a meeting with the owners of the house, she already knew what to offer them: Heather asked to donate the house for her so that she could modernize it at her discretion. Fortunately, the owners of the dilapidated mansion immediately agreed.
The main highlight of Heather's architectural creation is that one wall in the house has been replaced by plexiglass. The artist, without hesitation, explains why this is so: real dollhouses always do not have one wall so that children can put dolls in miniature rooms. Likewise, Heather Benning's house is designed to create the illusion of a game that it is really small, and we have become giants for a moment. As a result of such unusual transformations, a unique atmosphere reigns in the house, a different, fabulous reality is being constructed.
In addition to the glass wall, Heather Benning repaired the roof, renovated the rooms, painting the walls in bright colors. In the evening, when the lights are on, a toy comfort reigns in the rooms. Many things (and even pieces of furniture) came to this house from sales, auctions, charity events, something that was donated by Heather's colleagues from the artist community. It took her friends 18 months to transform the dilapidated house into a doll apartment. About $ 15,000 was spent on repairs. By the way, real doll houses are sometimes much more expensive. Proof of this is the splendid dollhouse built by miniaturist Peter Riches, which collectors estimate at £ 50,000.
Recommended:
How does a country cottage look like in which the soloist of "Night Snipers" Diana Arbenina lives with her twins
The stars of the domestic show business, making millions, as a rule, try to emphasize their status and financial position with elite real estate, building luxurious mansions in the style of "expensive and rich". But still, there are such celebrities whose houses look very simple and cheap against the background of the castles of their colleagues, but no less stylish and cozy. And we invite you on a tour to one of these houses. This is a country cottage on Pyatnitskoe highway, where rock diva Diana Arbenina lives with her twins
Conceptual illustrations by a Canadian artist from Toronto
Canadian artist Ashley Mackenzie lives and works in Toronto. She is the author of complex conceptual illustrations, balancing on the brink of philosophy and neuroscience. They are quite laconic in execution, but each of them has a deep meaning
Mesh-netting: one step from a summer cottage fence to a work of art
It seems that wire mesh is such a mundane thing that it is simply impossible to use it as a basis for a work of art. But lately the authors seem to have agreed: the weirder and inappropriate the material, the more eagerly they try to turn it into something beautiful and amazing. Ivan Lovatt proves with his work that not only fences for garden plots can be made from a chain-link mesh, but also very talented sculptures
Inside the guitar is yellow. Dollhouse by Lorraine Robinson
A dollhouse is the best gift for a girl. And it doesn't matter how old she is - 5, 25 or 55. Here is an unusual present for her adult daughter, made by designer Lorraine Robinson. She handed the child a guitar, inside of which there was an exact copy of the house of this family
Traces of the Soviet empire: dilapidated military bases in the review by an Italian photographer
In the photo cycle "Traces of the Soviet Empire", Italian Eric Lusito attempted to debunk the perception of the USSR as an indestructible militarized state. Having visited the abandoned military bases in the post-Soviet space, he was convinced that the once formidable fortifications are empty and deserted today