A true pioneer in this collecting field in France, this great collector has gathered an impressive array of miniatures coming from all over the world, related to decorative arts as well as applied arts. Founder of the Club de la Miniature Française in 1986, she also edited Le Magazine de la Maison de Poupée et de la Poupée d’Artiste from 1987 to 2009. Finally, she has been selling, since 1985, doll houses, miniatures and artist dolls in her Parisian shop « Poupée Tendresse ».


Many pieces of furniture of every style and period are presented with silver plates, bronzes, ceramics, fabrics, basketworks, brassware etc to recreate real miniature interiors, inhabited by appropriately scaled dolls or imaginary characters.

One can dream of being turned into Thumb Tom, walking through all these houses like in a dream come true. Let’s pretend to sit at the country kitchen table, to watch the fire in the fireplace of the Victorian living room, to rest in the grand house bedroom, to sit comfortably in the leather sofa of a contemporary house…

Or let’s go shopping and drool at the sight of cream cakes in the bakery, admire baskets in the wicker basket shop, choose baby wear in the clothes shop, watch the colorful customers at the local café.


The exhibit, like a stroll in a miniature town, will lead the visitor through a hundred of incredibly realistic houses and shops scaled 1/12. Thousands of miniatures will be presented in this exceptional exhibit, fascinating for both adults and children.

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Miniatures scale 1/12e, pieces of art and collection


Since the last World War, antique toys, dolls and doll houses have become highly sought after collectibles.
Concurrently with the development of the antiques market, many occidental craftsmen and artists have begun to make new art miniatures in order to reproduce antique styled items as well as contemporary pieces. These objects are no longer being created for children to play with but for an adults’ audience.

The first adult collectors of contemporary miniatures started their hobby in the USA nearly fifty years ago. Since then, a specialized art craft movement developed in Great Britain, France, Netherlands and Germany, the homeland of doll houses, where the interest for doll houses and miniatures was always very strong.

This passion for miniatures leads to various kinds of collections. Most of the miniature lovers develop an interior decorator’s sensibility. Their game consists in choosing the elements that, brought all together, recreate specific microcosms.Others will find in the miniature world a way to express their handcraft skills by making the objects themselves. Among them, some have turned to be real professional artists, like those who created the majority of miniatures presented in this exhibit.