At Tiny Doll House, craft the fun-sized world of your goals

NEW YORK — In this Upper East Side storefront, you may discover the whole lot from tuna cans the scale of your pinky finger to feather-light serviette holders. Welcome to Tiny Doll House, one of many metropolis’s most whimsical companies specializing in all issues miniature.

“Tiny Doll House is a brick-and-mortar shop specializing in dollhouses and everything that goes into them: foods, accessories, people, and so forth,” explains Leslie Edelman, Tiny Doll House’s proprietor and shopkeeper of over thirty-five years.

His curiosity in miniatures started when he determined to make a dollhouse for his niece. Soon sufficient, his passion grew to become a enterprise.

“I always enjoyed interior design and things like that. I always like to make things and do things,” Edelman recounts. “I became fascinated with the elements of everything that go into the dollhouse.”

His fascination reveals inside the store’s seemingly-endless number of gadgets: the store’s curated stock is sourced from over five-hundred completely different artisans world wide, with a lot of them specializing in a single merchandise, from hand-carved mini furnishings to thumb-sized charcuterie boards.

“I think the thing that surprises people the most when they come in is the complete variety of items that we have, and the very wide range of things that we offer.”

The store’s clientele consists of, in Edelman’s phrases, “anybody from 2 to 92. We have young children, adults, collectors, set designers, movie makers… all kinds of people that utilize our items.”

“Everybody smiles here. There’s never anybody that’s unhappy or grumpy,” Edelman says. Aside from the store’s clear fun-sized appeal, he believes the miniature worlds his clients can uncover by means of the store supply a way of escapism.

“We’re offering a little relief from the world to create the world that you want.”

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