"Miniature Collector" Features the Altes Haus Dollhouse

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Leslie Evans' Altes Haus

By Karin Corbin
From: Miniature Collector, March 2007
Altes Hause, Bacharach (left), Leslie's dollhouse (right)

Take an adventure in multiple dimensions, travel through space and time. Your journey will take years and your mission will be to create an object of such powerful magical properties that it can transport viewers into the past, into dimensions of altered size and can transform imagination into 3D reality. Few persons are up to such an arduous challenge, but Leslie Evans of Los Angeles, California, is one who was.

How I Came to Spend Fifteen Years Building a Model Inn

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Leslie Evans

Photo by Reed Hutchinson While we still lived in Mar Vista in the late 1980s I became interested in dollhouse miniatures. There was a small museum of old dollhouses in a Victorian house called Angel's Attic in Santa Monica , near the ocean. I went there, and then to a few miniature shows, where scores of exhibitors presented their crafts. These ranged from silly, frilly concoctions meant for a young girl's bedroom to some serious scale modelers who did amazingly precise tiny furniture and room boxes.