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A miniature marvel

Picture your ultimate dream home, designed by a fashionable architect and containing all the rooms needed for stylish living and grand entertainment: state-of-the-art kitchen, showy guest bedrooms, a luxurious drawing room to impress your guests. All of the decor is carefully chosen and made with the finest materials and craftsmanship. Working with the best artisans, buying furniture from high-end retailers and even turning your own hand to making some items, you have created a home which makes you the envy of society. Sounds perfect... except this dream house is only about 6ft high.

The dolls’ house I describe, housed at the National Trust’s Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire, is the most intricate, most

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