Oriental Fantasy | It's Always Christmas
Furniture is placed not just where it fits,
but where it makes sense if you have to sleep in this room.
These rooms
hold more than perfection of scale and matching furniture. They have been
humanized in a way little girls or dolls could never dream.
You have the feeling of looking at a show home, a place that is missing
only its inhabitants. The sense that these rooms are being lived in is inescapable.
Why?
Sharon has filled the rooms with details, angles, glimpses of the next
room, the shadow in the corner, the glare of light in just the right spot,
all to suggest to your mind that there's more here than what meets your
eye.
Life goes on just barely out of your line of vision. The folks will be
home any moment.
Next Page: Details and Dreams...
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these fiesta-flavored dining room photos for larger, more detailed shots.
Telling details that make this sitting room
feel lived in include the glass on the table and a book on the floor.
Even this child's room has beautifully realized placing of details. Notice the rocker alone in the shadowed corner, while the bookshelf has been emptied of its books or toys - just as a real child's room is always in slight disarray.
This recreation of the library room from the historic Ladew country home in Harford County includes a book placed on top of other books on a shelf - as if the reader could not squeeze the volume back in place. (Middle case, third shelf from top, red book.)
Lighting and mirrored reflections lend Sharon's rooms a theatrical impression and human warmth.
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Photography
by Emily Bates, Bill Bates,
Ellen Pons
Web site by Bill Bates, Harford New Media
The Liriodendron Foundation
Presents
The Biennial Doll House and Miniatures Show
Featuring
Antique and Vintage Dollhouses from the
Collection of Sharon A.H. May
Sundays, October 8 through December 17, 2000
1 - 4 PM
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