Eric Lansdown’s work has featured in many newspapers, magazines and catalogues.
The Dolls’ House Maker with an Enchanting Studio in the South of France
By Mila Wolpert
Meet Eric Lansdown, one of the world’s foremost dolls’ house and aviary artists whose studio in the south of France is as enchanting as his creations. The craftsman, currently exhibiting at Homo Faber in Venice, works inside the village’s medieval bishop’s hall – an atmospheric space where Roman temples, French châteaux and Napoleonic bridges stand tall.
A big obsession with all things teeny-tiny
By Aimee Farrell
The scaled-down models, aviaries and doll’s houses are the highlight at Homo Faber, the Luca Guadagnino art-directed craft fair opening this weekend.
The playful allure of life in miniature has never waned for Eric Lansdown. The 72-year-old began making aviaries and decorative cabinets for a San Franciscan antiques shop back in 1973. Now living in a 1,000-year-old fortress in the south of France, he creates elaborate structures that imaginatively conjure everything from French Renaissance châteaux to iterations of East Anglia’s Bridge of Sighs and the Brighton Pavilion, complete with domed towers and trompe l’oeil ivory.
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