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Museum of Arts and Design invites visitors into miniature world created by collector Joanna Fisher
The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo. Photo: Jenna Bascom.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Inspired by Venices glamorous Gritti Palace, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature is making its public debut at the Museum of Arts and Design. With a fifteenth-century classical exterior and ten rooms filled with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary craft, art, and design rendered in miniature, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature displays an impressive collection of contemporary art created by more than ten international artists, many of whom are working in miniature for the first time. New York collector, maker, and arts patron Joanna Fisher conceived of the dollhouse in response to the lockdown required by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like so many, she was housebound and felt her world shrink and embraced it, literally. The dollhouse project offered Fisher a f
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Like many people stuck at home over the past year, arts patron, interior designer, and collector Joanna Fisher found herself imagining what her dream house might look like. She found a preexisting building. She shopped for the best vintage furniture to fill its interiors. She commissioned paintings and sculptures from her favorite artists. But after Fisher’s project was complete, she couldn’t exactly move in. You see, Fisher’s fantasy residence is a dollhouse.
Fortunately, we can visit the petite residence, thanks to a new show at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), the Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature,
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