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Diverse volte la bambola giocattolo Barbie è stata criticata perchè le sue sembianze non rispecchiano propriamente la realtà. Così l’artista Nickolay Lamm ne ha immaginata una un po’ più vicina ai canoni medi della ragazza americana. Lammily è castana, 19enne, leggermente truccata e un guardaroba meno appariscente. Manca poco a raggiungere la quota fissata per il crowdfunding, sono sicuro avrà più successo della versione di Lisa Cuordileone.

Twenty architects and designers including Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye have designed and constructed dolls’ houses, each integrating a feature that would make life easier for a disabled child (+ slideshow).

Property developer Cathedral Group enlisted a host of UK designers, including FAT, dRMM, Make Architects and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, to come up with designs for the bespoke structures in a bid to raise £100,000 for disabled children’s charity KIDS.

Referencing a dolls’ house that British architect Edwin Lutyens exhibited in 1922, the brief asked each team to present a unique design on a 750-millimetre square plinth, which could then be sold at auction.

FAT worked with artist Grayson Perry on its entry, which takes the iconic form of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower building and adds an assortment of colourful openings.

London studio Guy Hollaway Architects based its design on a jack-in-a-box toy, creating a simple house with an inflatable pavilion concealed inside.

A jigsaw puzzle provided the cues for houses by Studio Egret West and Make Architects, who created models that can be assembled in different configurations.

Coffey Architects created the heaviest structure, building a concrete house with rooms that can be removed like a classic shape-sorter toy.

Architectural modelmakers AModels and designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan also took part. Their entries included a treehouse filled with models of Elvis and a house on stilts above a coral reef.

Other entries included Duggan Morris Architects, Dexter Moren, DRDH Architects, Glenn Howells Architects, HLM Architects, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, mae, RAAD Studio and shedkm.

All 20 will be presented for auction later this week with a target to raise £100,000 for the charity.

In other news, fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic has created the latest home for fashion doll Barbie, while Ikea has announced plans to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with. See more toy design »

Here’s some more information from Cathedral Group:

Twenty of the world’s best architects and designers build a dolls’ house for kids

On the 11 November 2013, 20 of the world’s best contemporary architects and designers will present their version of a dolls’ house in an exhibition and auction at Bonhams in aid of KIDS.

The project has been curated by Cathedral Group Plc, an innovative and forward-thinking property developer and is inspired by the dolls’ house that Edwin Lutyens designed for The British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1922 – using a very traditional children’s toy to display the very best of modern British architecture, craftsmanship, art and interior design.

Participating architects and designers include: Adjaye Associates, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, AMODELS, Coffey Architects, Dexter Moren, DRDH Architects, dRMM, Duggan Morris Architects, FAT Architecture, Glenn Howells Architects, Guy Hollaway Architects, HLM Architects, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, mae, Make Architects, Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan, James Ramsey RAAD Studio with Lara Apponyi, shedkm, Studio Egret West and Zaha Hadid Architects.

In the same spirit as the Edwin Lutyens dolls’ house, the architects and designers have been challenged to work with their own artist, designer and furniture-maker collaborations to make the end products even more special. Among other collaborations FAT will be working with Grayson Perry and Studio Egret West with Andrew Logan. Each dolls house – which will fit on a 750mm x 750mm plinth will also include a unique feature to make life easier for a child who is disabled.

Cathedral Group has pledged to raise £100,000 for KIDS to support their valuable work. KIDS is a UK charity supporting disabled children, young people and their families. They run home learning programmes, specialist nurseries and crèches, short-break programmes for disabled children and a series of inclusive adventure playgrounds. They offer a wide variety of services to parents of children with disabilities and programmes for siblings of disabled children and young carers.

A Dolls House has been kindly sponsored by Bonhams, Alno, Marley Eternit, Greenberg Traurig Maher, Realise Creative, Development Securities, Quatro PR, ING Media and Cadogan Tate.

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News: Ikea has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with.

The set of doll’s house furniture is called Huset and features the Klippan sofa, Lack table, Expedit shelving unit and Vago chair.

It will be available from the beginning of August, when Ikea launches its 2014 catalogue, and will be priced at £12.

Packaging for the petite products features illustrations of interior items such as clocks and picture frames that can be cut out and used as a backdrop.

Ikea’s children’s business leader Carol McSeveney told the Evening Telegraph that research shows “lots of kids want to create doll’s houses for their toys that reflect their own homes – furnished in a more modern style, with plenty of space to store all the accessories, of course.”

Last week, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad resigned from the company’s board, saying that Ikea was undergoing a “generational shift” – see all stories about Ikea.

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Petite in scale, though hardly diminutive in concept and artistry, Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf‘s retrospective spans 17 years of innovative and boundary-pushing fashion at Antwerp’s Studio Job Gallery.

The exhibit, comprised of more than 30 dolls—one doll to represent each collection they’ve done to date since their idiosyncratic brand’s formation in 1993—epitomizes Viktor Horsting and Rolf Shoeren’s eccentric, often quirky regard for fashion design, the notion of wearable clothing versus wearable art and its extension beyond the human form.

The Lilliputian examples include some of the designers’ most recognizable pieces to date, from a sensational all-white gown from the duo’s first haute couture collection (Spring/Summer 1998) to a full-body “Russian doll” cape from the Fall 199 collection (both pictured above), as well as an exquisite replica of the red quilted “duvet-and-pillow” coatdress from their much-publicized Fall/Winter 2005 collection.

In 2008, the London’s Barbican Centre exhibited a retrospective of Viktor & Rolf’s work, which also included a smaller, earlier collection of dolls modeling their clothes. Both exhibitions further prove the duo’s mastery of miniature costumes.

The show runs through 16 July 2010. See more images, including full-size versions of those pictured, after the jump.