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Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle is a fairy dream home adapted to fantastic proportions. This elaborate miniature house was created in the 1930s by silent film star Colleen Moore, fulfilling her childhood fascination with doll houses.
The Colleen Moore fairy Castle Dollhouse and the Astolat Dollhouse Castle were designed with fixed contiguous exterior walls to create a three-dimensional viewing effect. Astolat was built over a thirteen-year period. The exterior took a year to sculpt to the final finish.
Join Curator, Margaret Schlesinger from the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, as she takes you on a tiny tour of Colleen Moore’s enchanted Fairy Castle....
Aug 2, 2013 · Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle is an elaborate doll's house adapted to fantastic proportions, filled with miniatures and artifacts. It cost an astonishing $500,000 at the time of its...
Language. English. 32 pages : 28 cm. Catalog of a dollhouse designed by Horace Jackson for Colleen Moore, and housed at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Ill. Cover title. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate. 2019-01-22 12:43:56.
Feb 22, 2015 · Not bad, for a doll house! Between 1928 and 1935, Hollywood star Colleen Moore spent a reported half-million dollars on her Fairy Castle, employing some 100 Hollywood designers and...
Feb 22, 2015 · Hargrave spent many fun afternoons with her grandmother, visiting the Fairy Castle, a dollhouse which never actually housed any dolls. According to Alice, it housed fairies which Moore would...
