Dollhouses: Finally, at Long Last, a Zaha Hadid-Designed 'Dollhouse'

Thursday, October 10, 2013, by Amy Schellenbaum

Leave it up to architect Zaha Hadid—she responsible for undulating cruiseship metro stations in Saudi Arabia, swoopy streak proposals for Olympic Tokyo, and space-age icebergs in Hong Kong—to turn something as ubiquitous and sweet as a dollhouse into a deconstructed piece of colorless design. So what has pushed Hadid into the robust world of dollhouses, a realm in which the likes of Martyn Lawrence Bullard, fashion's Monique Lhullier, heiress Huguette Clark, and, of course, IKEA have dabbled? It's all part of a push by UK developer Cathedral Group to raise £100K for KIDS, a non-profit that improves the lives of children with disabilities. Hadid and 18 other well-known British architects, including contemporary greats like Andrew Logan and David Adjaye, have designed high-end dollhouses to be auctioned off next month.

The only entry rules: the house must fit on a 29-inch-square plinth a have a design feature meant for a child with a disability. Everything else, from color scheme to extravagance to, well, actual resemblance to a dollhouse, is up to the designer. Above, a look at some of the other entries. Interested in owning one of these bad boys? They go up for auction officially on November 11, though right this very second there's a bit of pre-auctioning going on over at the project's website. Start counting your pennies, Hadid's dollhouse is already up to £1,261.

· A Dolls' House by David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, FAT, dRMM and others [Dezeen]
· A Dolls House auction [Interactive Fundraising]
· All Dollhouses posts [Curbed National]
· All Zaha Hadid posts [Curbed National]

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