Life in Lilliput
SOMETHING extraordinary is going on in a small upstairs room near the centre of Chichester in West Sussex. Here, a young man spends up to 14 hours a day surrounded by cardboard, scalpels, Biros, old plastic bottles, crayons, glue, acrylic paint, Styrofoam, various bits of wood, sponges, a table saw—and photographs. The photographs are of houses, from which William Davies creates three-dimensional miniature models with such exquisite attention to detail that you wonder why such a talent hasn’t been scooped up by a film-production company or grand architectural practice. It might be because if there’s one thing the 28 year
