.A picture from a magazine was the style of the staircase to be.
The actual staircase in the picture was to a mezzanine floor whereas the doll's
house needed a return to reach the first floor. The main point
was the style not the replication. So the newel post, the banister
and the stairs should be the same but the layout hat to be different since the
actual house and the doll's house were different
.
Another miniaturist who specialises in lace making sent a copy of an oil
painting by Quiringh van Brekelenkam
showing a Lace Making School painted in 1654. She wanted to bring
the painting to life in miniature but could not find the chairs that were in the
picture. Could I make them? There were three styles of
chair in the picture all of ladder back design. Three plain
post chairs
,
an ornate turned post chair 
and an armchair
with the table
thrown in for good measure were agreed upon after a prototype example hade been
made. The result of the miniaturists work including the chairs and table
are shown here
and finally
The result is to be on display in the Doll and Toy Museum in Rothenburg o.d.T.
in Germany from March to October 2010