2018/10/22 by Jiyi Ryu · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Travel Writing and Literature #Australian History and Society
paper · doi:10.1080/13619462.2018.1519433
openalex publication_date 2018/10/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This article focuses on Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, designed by Edwin Landseer Lutyens and unveiled to the public in 1924 at the British Empire Exhibition. The Dolls’ House epitomised the characteristics of Britain as a nation and an empire through its English exterior and British world objects within. Marginalised in academic discourses and regarded as a plaything, this article brings the Dolls’ House back to discourses of British material and visual culture as well as Lutyens scholarship. To this end, it analyses how the design and contents of the House encapsulated the British imperial world and materialised Britain’s position in the postwar world.