Summary

Alternative Name(s): Chaise Lounge; Lounge; Sofa; Couch

Toy chaise longue with floral upholstery and a dark blue cushion. The donor recalls it was added to the doll's house in the early 1950s.

Part of a dolls' house, built around 1920 by Neil McArthur for his much younger half-sister Elizabeth (Beth) Twycross, born in 1917. Neil made the doll's house out of found materials including cigar boxes; he also made many of the furnishings in the doll's house. Some of the contents of the doll's house may date back to the 1860s, played with by ancestor Charlotte Twycross; most date to either the 1920s or the 1940s-50s. In the early 1950s the donor was given the spruced-up doll's house as a birthday present by her parents. In later years her own daughter later added items, although she wasn't allowed to play due to its fragility.

Of a very similar style to a chaise lounge belonging to a dolls' house in the National Museum of Australia, mostly mid-1920s to the mid-1930s (Susan and Andrew Gibson collection, accession number 2013.0038.0109)

Physical Description

Rectangular shaped toy chaise longue. Upholstered in muted floral fabric, with blue plaiting on edge of seat. Back rest on one side of longue. Wooden frame and cardboard underside.

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