Miniatyrhuset blev störst i världen
Den treåriga Hisingsbon Anna Maria Ahlstrand fick det här dockskåpet julen 1979. Dockfamiljen som bodde i skåpet fick med åren både garage, piano och akvarium. På 90-talet fick gillestugan tidstypiska strukturtapeter. Det mest traumatiska i dockskåpets historia var förmodligen när Anna Maria fick en ny dockfamilj i present. Hon löste det genom en otrohetsaffär med lyckligt slut. Därefter bodde alla i skåpet som en enda storfamilj.
Företaget Lundby dockskåp startade på Hisingen 1947. Grete Thomsen, inflyttad från Danmark, gjorde dockmöbler till ett syskonbarn. De blev så fina att Ferdinand Lundquist, stans finaste varuhus, ville sälja dem. Företaget flyttade till Lerum, anställde en inredningsarkitekt och började också göra dockskåp i olika modeller. Den första och mest kända modellen, som också står här, hette Göteborg. 1980 såldes 100 000 Göteborg i 20 länder.
Sedan 1997 är det ett småländskt leksaksföretag som säljer Lundby dockskåp. Både hus och möbler massproduceras nu i Kina. 2006 fattade ägaren det obegripliga beslutet att döpa om klassikern Göteborg till Småland.
DOLL’S HOUSE - The story of Lundby doll’s houses began in Lundby in Gothenburg in 1947. Thirty years later, 100,000 of them were sold per year. This model was called Gothenburg.
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The miniature house that became the biggest in the world
The three-year-old Hisingen resident Anna Maria Ahlstrand was given this doll’s house at Christmas 1979. Over time, the doll family that lived in it gained a garage, piano and aquarium. In the 1990s the recreation room was given the textured wallpaper typical of the times. The most traumatic moment in the house’s history was probably when Anna Maria was given a new doll family. She solved the conflict with an affair that had a happy ending. Afterwards, all the dolls lived in the house as one big family.
The company behind the houses, Lundby dockskåp, was founded on Hisingen in 1947. Grete Thomsen, an immigrant from Denmark, was making dolls’ furniture for a young relative. The furniture was so good that the city’s finest department store, Ferdinand Lundquist, wanted to sell it. The company moved to Lerum, hired an interior designer, and began also making various models of doll’s houses. The first and best known of these, exhibited here, was called Göteborg. In 1980 100,000 of this model were sold in 20 countries.
Since 1997 a toy company in Småland is the seller of Lundby doll’s houses. Both the houses and the furniture are now mass produced in China. In 2006 the owner made the inconceivable decision to rename the classic Göteborg as Småland.
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