Exhibit at the Met Breuer

On a recent trip to New York City, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  I asked our tour guide if there were any dollhouses or miniatures in the museum and she told me about an exhibit at the Met Breuer by Iranian American artist Siah Armajani called "Follow This Line" which included dollhouse parts.

 

The Met Breuer is a building near the Metropolitan Museum of Art that showcases works from the Met's collection that are "thematic".  The building was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1966.

The exhibit featured over a hundred items spanning the last 60 years of his work.  Many of the studies included pieces of antique dollhouse parts and dollhouse furniture.  One description noted that Armajani's pieces are not designed for habitation, instead, they articulate various ways of mapping site and location in time and space.

This piece is called The First House (1970) 

Other pieces like this one, entitled Gazebo for One Anarchist: Luigi Galleani was made from balsa wood. (1991)

This piece called Persian Garden #1 (1983), was constructed of wood, paint, flocking paper and transfer type letters.  

This piece is called Bridge Over Tree (1970) and a full scale piece is currently on display in Brooklyn Bridge Park to coincide with the exhibition

Click HERE to see a short video about the exhibition and the building of the bridge piece or click below:

Magazine Publication News

Be sure to check out my latest article about the history of 3/4" scale Strombecker painted dollhouse furniture and the 1930's depression era house where it resides.

The article is in the May Issue of Dollhouse Miniatures Magazine

To see my Strombecker collection click a link below:

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3/4" Strombecker collection