TY - JOUR AU - McCarthy, Christine PY - 2022/12/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - "more cars and fewer hen houses": New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1960s JF - Architectural History Aotearoa JA - aha VL - 19 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.26686/aha.v19i.8046 UR - https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/aha/article/view/8046 SP - 1-27 AB - <p>In New Zealand most extant dolls' houses from the second half of the twentieth century are home-made. The venture by the Auckland firm Jomax into mass-producing a single-storey dolls' house in the mid-sixties was unusual. This venture may have been spurred on by the traditional two-storey dolls' houses being produced by the New Zealand Tri-ang factory, also in Auckland. <br>The Jomax "Little Princess" dolls' house does not, like the New Zealand Tri-ang houses, reflect a UK heritage, but is clearly a New Zealand house similar in form to many being built and published in the 1960s. Jomax also made sets of modern-style furniture suitable for fitting out its four rooms and a hallway. The paper examines the interiors of this New Zealand-designed house and compares them with those of UK (Tri-ang) and East German (Gottschalk) toy houses of the same vintage. The comparison explores the interiors, with their obvious differences and some similarities, and asks whether they reflect the full-scale versions of the time, or whether they were to some extent aspirational.</p> ER -