c. 1939
Manufacturer: Lines Bros, England, under the brand name, Tri-ang (1919 - 1971)
H 67 x W 120 x D 44 cm
Collection: Private Collector
Manufacturer: Lines Bros, England, under the brand name, Tri-ang (1919 - 1971)
H 67 x W 120 x D 44 cm
Collection: Private Collector
The ‘Stockbroker’ manufactured by Tri-ang was the ultimate doll house.
This model remained in production from the 1930s until the end of the 1950s.
The Tri-ang catalogue of 1939 described it as:
‘A full-sized house of fashionable Tudor design. Half-timbered gables and front built-in garage with opening doors. Two bedrooms, dining room, bathroom and kitchen with stove, dresser and sink, and landing. Front opens in four pieces. Side entrance with porch and seat. Opening metal framed windows with imitation green shutters. Fireplaces in all rooms. Red tiled roof. Steps and dummy shrubs, imitation flowered front. Four electric wall lights with switches.’
The doll house’s name came from the English cartoonist and architectural historian, Sir Osbert Lancaster, who lampooned the style as ‘Stockbroker Tudor’. ‘Mock Tudor’ was a 20th century architectural trend used in speculative building developments on the outskirts of English towns. The style lent itself to recreation on a doll house because it utilised so much detailing: ‘Tudor gables, mock half-timber work, rough cast and bay windows of every shape’.
