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by Liliane Limpens
February 13, 2025 |
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DOLLSVILLA
TO A POLISH DOLL |
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A DollsVilla toilet is on its way to a
Polish doll. A mother in Kórnik, near
Poznań, discovers this Dutch design
piece of furniture.
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She is going to use it as a training
tool to playfully toilet-train her son >
3 years old. If he lets his favorite
cuddly toy discover the toilet, it is of
course a small step to himself.
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The water
closet has a plexiglass lid,
children love the clacking sound. Part
of the DollsVilla by Liliane®. |
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by Liliane Limpens
February 11, 2025 |
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THAT'S
WHERE IT STARTS... |
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Certainly, also a high-quality home for
the children of the children [their
favorite dolls]. That is where the
transmission of love begins. |
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Kimberley November 14, 2024 |
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DOLLSVILLA
FOR FAMILY GENERATIONS |
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US Saint Charles
[Missouri] - Grandmother Kimberley:
“I would like to order this doll house
for my granddaughter. I bought a
DollsVilla in 2022 for my daughter's
daughter and i want to purchase now for
my son's daughter. This gift has been a
joy for my grandchild and I want the
other to have the same experience.” |
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“This is an heirloom my granddaughters
can pass to her children. So very
well made. Easy to put together, only
took 2 of us in 2022 and less then 2
hours. Its wonderful.” |
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“On the photo our first granddaughter
with one of your dollhouses in 2022. She
is 4 years old now and still loves it
very much. The first photo she is
squealing at her reflection in the
mirror and babbling to herself and the
second photo she is pretending to wash
her hands.” |
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“The DollsVilla is coming my way, I am
so thrilled. You spread joy to children
all over the world
❤️ #Respectfully |
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by Liliane
October 28, 2024 |
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DOLLSVILLA
FOR GENERATIONS |
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The DollsVilla by Liliane® [1999] is
proven to be durable. Generations can
play with it to their heart's content.
Its power described compactly: |
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by Liliane
Limpens September 19, 2024 |
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NEW SUPPLIER
DOLLSVILLA |
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Jindl [2020] starts selling the DollsVilla
by Liliane®. Jindl's beautiful, low-stimulus
product range is Monterssori-minded and
consists of handmade climbing frames,
outdoor products, high-quality children's
furniture and toys. For home and childcare.
Designed with the design DNA. |
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"Wow! This large dollhouse is a hit with
children. Not only because of its size,
but also because of the enormous
possibilities. It is therefore not
without reason that we call this
dollhouse a DollsVilla."
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"The
professional DollsVilla by Liliane® on
wheels (with brake) is the sustainable home
for dolls up to 30 cm tall, cuddly toys and
of course for cars. This gender-neutral
dollhouse has a beautiful design and there
is a clear philosophy behind it." |
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"Playing with
the DollsVilla is playing with wood.
Children can feel, smell and see this
beautiful natural product. The DollsVilla is
the domain of the children. They decide what
happens here. Completely in their own way.
This way they are able to make up the best
stories and experience the most beautiful
adventures together with the dolls. The doll
house is nice and spacious and is completely
complete." |
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by Sabrina
September 17,2024 |
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DOLLSVILLA
A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART |
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Aspen Colorado - "What
a beautiful piece of art
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Thank you so very much for the sending.
I actually managed to built the
DollsVilla last Friday. Our daughter
turned 8, want to surprise her with it
this Saturday." - Sabrina, a US buyer of
the Dutch DollsVilla by Liliane®. |
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Liliane Limpens February 6,i 2024, photo's Bianca Sijsenaar |
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Drenthe in the Netherlands |
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DOLLSVILLA
IN DUTCH MUSEUM |
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The original, handmade DollsVilla by
Liliane® from 1997/1998, a design by
Liliane Limpens, has been part of the
permanent collection of the Toy Museum
Roden [1969], near Groningen in the
Netherlands, since 2019. The museum has
the largest collection of toys in the
Netherlands, focuses on the importance
of playing for all generations and is a
popular place for primary school
excursions, among other things. |
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Children can actively play [together] in
the museum café with a DollsVilla from a production series. |
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"Children still play with the DollsVilla
every day." - Jantina van der Broek,
director/manager Toy Museum Roden and
director of the Havezate Mensinge museum
on February 6, 2024. |
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Former museum curator Mara Bosboom: "This
way the children can see the development
of a prototype into its final market
form." |
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by
Nouska Lekkerkerker-de Bruijn January 18,
2024 |
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DOLLSVILLA IN LIBRARY |
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"Yesterday we came across your beautiful
DollsVilla in our library in s‑Gravenzande! My daughter has been wanting to
go to that library lately instead of to Monster (where we live), my husband
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And I get it, because the DollsVilla is so
beautiful! As a little girl I would probably have liked this just as much as
my daughter did. So beautifully finished and laid out, like those drawers. I
think the concept really deserves all my compliments! It's also great that
you use it widely, such as for healthcare and social purposes. Love❤". |
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Nouska Lekkerkerker-de Bruijn,
mom and entrepreneur parenting and play
coach at 'Spelen met spikkels.’ |
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by
Liliane Limpens
December 9, 2022 |
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DOLLSVILLA
IN ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM |
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Exhibition of the DollsVilla at the
exhibition Playing Architecture - the game
for the city in ARCAM, the Architecture
Center Amsterdam, from December 10, 2022 to
May 28, 2023. |
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Dollhouses are one of the oldest and
best-known types of building games, but the
examples in this exhibition transcend
outdated paradigms to illustrate aspects of
society that aren't represented in
traditional dollhouses. |
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The exhibition
raises awareness of the messages and
representations contained in architectural
games – in a positive and negative sense –
and invites you to directly experience their
potential through play, including with the
DollsVilla by Liliane®. |
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Curator Mélanie van der Hoorn, author of
Serious Fun: Architecture & Games (2022).
Design Dafne Wiegers, architect AHH. |
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by Liliane
Limpens December 8, 2023 |
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DOLLSVILLA FOR CHRISTMAS IN UK |
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A DollsVilla for Christmas 2023 has arrived in Bath UK, the buyer mother
Bernadette gives 5 stars, for quality, transport and service: |
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“Amazing customer service of the Dutch company DollsVilla that took the
burden of an unexpected additional fee away from me and onto their company.
Graceful and classy position to take.” |
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by Liliane
Limpens November 14, 2023 |
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DOLLSVILLA ON THE WAY TO FRANCE |
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Propriétaire de Baudou Meubles pour enfants
: "Les clients de notre magasin ŕ Paris sont
trčs enthousiastes ŕ l'égard de la Villa de
Poupées by Liliane ®
des Pays-Bas. La taille [pour
des poupées de 30 centimčtres], le design,
les matériaux et la durabilité sont trčs
appréciés." Le magasin est situé dans le
7čme arrondissement de Paris, ŕ proximité du
musée d'Orsay. |
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Liliane December 7, 2022 |
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CHRISTMAS
VILLA'S TO SINGAPORE,PARIJS, |
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ARNHEM,
GRONINGEN, AMSTERDAM |
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Even outside
Europe, [grand] parents give a Dutch
DollsVilla to their [grand] children. It's
so cozy when they build their own dream life
with their dolls and cars for hours / days
during the Christmas holidays. In a play
flow! |
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"The DollsVilla is the exclusive domain of children and they alone determine
its norms and values, its rules of conduct, and its viewpoints and freedoms.
Adults have no authority and are granted access solely by invitation.
Instead of being focused on the world of adults, the villa shifts the
child’s attention to her or his own life, which is precisely where it should
be." - Liliane |
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by Mélanie van der
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November
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nai010 Dutch Architecture Museum
Rotterdam |
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DOLLSVILLA
IN NAi PUBLICATION |
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DollsVilla
by Liliane®
in ‘Serious Fun:
Architecture & Games’ by Mélanie
van der Hoorn, 2022. About architecture
and urban design games that have been
conceived and made by architects, urban
planners, artists and game developers since
the end of the twentieth century. |
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Serious Fun by Mélanie van der
Hoorn.
nai010 publishers - Nederlands
Architectuurmuseum [Dutch
Architecture Museum] in conjunction
with Architekturzentrum Wien and
with the
support of the dutch
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve
Industrie [Creative Industries Fund
The Netherlands]. |
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"Liliane Limpens also recognized that you
needed little to create a discernible,
contemporary appearance. In 1999 she came up
with the
PoppenVilla, 'the Bentley among
doll's houses'. What sets it apart, above
all, are its dimensions: 130 cm tall, 120 cm
wide and 62 cm deep. Several children can
play with it at the same time, with
30-cm-tall dolls or soft toys. Limpens
wanted to make a sustainable design house
out of high-quality materials:
clear-varnished birch wood and stainless
steel. Her motto was: 'Papa and mama have a
granite kitchen working top, stainless steel
taps, double washbasins, a design bed...
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of course come at a price that, despite the
miniature size, is beyond the reach of many
people: over 1700 euros without furniture.
It also features a ramp, a recent feature to
make the PoppenVilla supposedly 'gender
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immediately place a car on it, because:
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Will this substantially help to solve gender
problems? Whatever the case, the house is
immensely popular: thousands of hospitals,
creches and primary schools in various
countries have ordered one over the past two
decades. It looks modern, is a niche product
with a good marketing concept and has
scarcely any competitors. Yet the innovative
aspects are not architectural: this is an
upper-middle-class family home with a
pitched roof, which suggests a classical
family unit comprising two parents and two
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PoppenVilla
has not been matched by all manufacturers:
Sirch, Minimii and Mini Archi have reason to
be satisfied if they sell fifty houses in a
year. So what does the PoppenVilla have that
they lack? It is certified for sale in the
EU and US, because the toy market is
strictly regulated and official testing
agencies apply high standards. Smaller
producers of doll's houses that cost 300-500
euros can scarcely afford the necessary
quality, safety and environmental
certificates. Moreover, the required
sturdiness places demands on materials and
construction, which in turn do not always
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https://poppenvilla.nl/LilianeLimpensVisieMissie.htm
(last consulted on 16 February 2022; see the
heading 'Gelijkwaardigheid'.
[in English
https://dollsvilla.com/LilianeLimpensVisionMission.htm
-see the heading Equality - addition by
Liliane] |
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The washbasins, mirror, rails and worktop
make the bathroom and kitchen instantly
recognizable. The other rooms are almost
automatically designated as living room,
parents' room, children's room and study.
Limpens calls the seventh room (on the
ground floor) a 'recreation room': it could
be a horse stable, bike shed, garage, sports
or music room. In that respect, the slightly
smaller PoppenVilla Light is more abstract,
with three indoor spaces and one outdoor
space that are not further defined. |
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Exhibition
Playing Architecture - het spel om de stad
in ARCAM, the Architecture Center Amsterdam,
from December 10, 2022 to May 28, 2023. The
exhibition explores the messages and stories
contained in analog and digital games and
shows what these can mean for architecture. |
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Mélanie van der
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6 september 2022 |
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DOLLSVILLA
IN PUBLICATION |
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Announcement book 'Serious Fun: Architecture
& Games' by Mélanie van der Hoorn.
Serious Fun is about
architecture and urban design games that
have been conceived and created by
architects, urban designers, artists and
game developers since the end of the
twentieth century – from doll’s houses to
construction games and city building games,
from SimCity to Block by Block. |
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The DollsVilla by Liliane® is discussed in
Serious Fun. Detailed information will
follow. Exhibition expected at the
Architecture Center in Amsterdam [December
2022]. |
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Publisher Netherlands Architecture Museum |
ISBN 978-94-6208-689-0 | Mélanie
van der Hoorn | English | hardcover | 224
pages | in conjunction with
Architekturzentrum Wien | with support from
Creative Industries Fund NL. |
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Mélanie van der Hoorn
is a researcher, author, curator and teacher
in the field of architectural perception,
representation and communication. |
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Liliane Limpens August 6, 2022, foto's Bianca Sijsenaar |
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Roden - Province
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DOLLSVILLA
IN DUTCH MUSEUM |
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The original, handmade DollsVilla by
Liliane® from 1997/1998, a design by
Liliane Limpens, has been part of the
permanent museum collection of the
Museum Kinderwereld [1969] in Roden,
near Groningen, since 2019. Children can
play actively [together] in the museum
café with a DollsVilla from a production
series. |
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Museum curator Mara Bosboom: "This way
the children can see the development
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form." |
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by Liliane Limpens March 3, 2022 |
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DOLLSVILLA TO
THE US' GOLDEN STATE |
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Americans love
the mobile Dutch Villa a lot, which is
especially built for large dolls, and their
horses, cars, skateboards and bicycles! A
complete DollsVilla by Liliane®,
model
leading,
is now in the starting blocks to leave the
Netherlands to the children in a family in
Santa Monica, California. |
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Moon Picnic US:
"As soon
as you see this your heart will explode with
a child's excitement, however old you are." |
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US: 'SUCH AN EXCELLENT PRODUCT!' |
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DollsVilla light
arrived and in
perfect condition! Thank you for following
up on it. I plan to use it personally and
customize it as a home for my 1/6 scale
figures." |
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"I was looking for something open,
but with a design that was more contemporary
and wasn't like normal dollhouses you see
all the time. This fit the bill, and I must
say the craftsmanship and design are
absolutely superb. It was so easy to
assemble and it fits together perfectly.
Thank you so much for offering up such an
excellent product unlike anything else
available out there!" |
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Private customer - Billings Montana State
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Liliane Limpens
January 26, 2021 |
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GROWING SUCCESS DOLLSVILLA IN THE US |
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“Omg I love it”. Increasing
success for the Dutch DollsVilla in the
United States. Orders mainly come from
individuals / families from the states of
California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois,
Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,
Montana, New York, Texas and Wyoming. Also
US online stores on the track of the
DollsVilla. #naturalgrow |
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Silvia Fabro and
Liliane Limpens December 1, 2020 |
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QUANDO SI DICE "AMORE A PRIMA VISTA!" |
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Quando si dice "amore
a prima vista"!
Dollsvilla by Liliane® Limpens
[When
you say "love at first sight"!]
Facebook Fabrodesign August 12, 2020. |
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Hello Liliane,
I am a designer, Montessori by
vocation and I think your product is beautiful. I saw the Villa
in Milan
(Fuorisalone). My favorite job is
to design for children and your house is a very beautiful
message:
gender neutrality and much
more. It's so nice to see someone pays attention to the details for
children's toys. |
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Thank you Silvia!
Children are in the basement of
new lifes, that is why investing in them is so fundamental, a
person
carries the emo-DNA of the base
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Liliane Limpens November 30, 2020 |
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CHRISTMAS VILLA'S |
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Cosy Christmas villa’s for the
children’s children! To Paris FR,
Houston TX US, Stuttgart DE [2], Břrsa
NO, Aspen US, Rotterdam NL, Mansfield MA US,
Assendelft NL, Hamburg DE. |
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From Mansfield US: “Per our convo, this
is a christmas gift for my two
daughters. Thanks so much!!! They are
going to LOVE this!!!”. |
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The beloved Dutch design DollsVilla by
Liliane® from 1999. To house their most
important emotions.
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by Liliane
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DUTCH DOLLSVILLA IS OUR LUCKY
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Brooklyn New York October 25, 2020 – “We bought your dollhouse
for our school in the spring of 2017 and we love it.
Our goal is to open our online store
later this year with a few selected
brands. We would love to showcase your
beautiful dollhouse on our website." |
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DollsVilla has been part during the grow
of our school and we hope it will be
part during the grow of our online
store. It is our lucky house.” - Prisca
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La Petite Colline is a family
operated bilingual (French and
English) preschool for children
between the ages of 1.6 year and
6 years old. Drawing from a
Swiss background, the preschool
provide a progressive and
project-based program. The
light-filled classrooms
overlooking the Japanese garden
reflect the belief
(conviction/position/view) that
a child’s environment serves as
the third teacher. |
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by Liliane
Limpens September 23, 2020 |
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DOLLSVILLA IN NORWAY |
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Břrsa Norway September 23, 2020 - In a
few days, this small village of <1,000
inhabitants in the Norwegian province of
Trřndelag will be home to a child-high
villa on wheels, for large dolls and
their cars.
The DollsVilla by Liliane® from the
Netherlands! |
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Liliane
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ENTRANCE DOLLSVILLA IN UKRAINE |
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Ternopil Ukraine
September 22, 2020 - The Dutch
DollsVilla by Liliane® is leaving for
the Ukraine in Eastern Europe for the
first time. |
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Liliane
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DOLLSVILLA
TO JACKSON, WYOMING US |
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Jackson US August 10, 2020 - And again a
Dutch design DollsVilla by Liliane® is
leaving for the US, to a business family
in Wyoming. Also called "The Equality
State" - equal rights for women and men
have long existed. |
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The US
customer Angela
- September 2, 2020: "The Dolls villa is
amazing, we love it, the
quality of the dolls house is best, and
the shipment was very fast.
Thank you, I will highly recommend it to
all my friends." |
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US shop:
"As soon as you see this your heart will
explode with a child's excitement,
however old you are." |
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by
Liliane
Limpens August 21, 2020 |
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KÖNIG GALERIE BERLIN & THE DOLLSVILLA |
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Berlin August 21,
2020 – The imposing German König Galerie
acquires the Dutch design furniture of
the DollsVilla by Liliane®. |
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König Galerie was
founded in Berlin in 2002. The program’s
focus is on interdisciplinary,
concept-oriented and space-based
approaches in a variety of media
including sculpture, video, sound,
painting, printmaking, photography and
performance. |
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The galerie regularly
participates in international art fairs
such as Art Basel fairs and Frieze Art
fairs and has successfully placed works
in the Museum of Modern Art in New York
and the Guggenheim Foundation. |
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König Galerie
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St. Agnes
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Alexanderstr. 118-121 10969 Berlin |
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König also stores in London and
Tokyo. |
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by
RitzKids
July 14, 2020 |
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RitzKidz new online business |
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VIDEO DOLLSVILLA BY LILIANE®
LEADING |
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RitzKidz: "The DollsVilla by Liliane® Leading is a
child-high dolls villa that really gives
children the space to play. The large
size of the villa ensures that every
visitor is welcome. From cuddly toys to
Barbie dolls, everyone can find their
place in this fantastic house. Who is
going to live in your villa? " |
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VIDEO DOLLSVILLA BY LILIANE®
LIGHT |
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RitzKidz:
"Liliane's Dolls Villa allows children
to manage their own piece of real estate.
The four-dimensional dolls villa can be
approached from all sides. This ensures
that all children playing tell the story
together. The villa brings pleasure with
empathic development. A real must
-have!" |
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RitzKids: Our company aims to bring 'play'
back to the child and the family. The
degree of awareness and the use of
emotion ensures a very good development
of the child. A child's world should
consist of more aspects than a screen
with pixels. |
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