pucciManuli - A Remarkable Collection

The Store, inspired by a typical tradesman's shop dating back to the 1500s, is an enchanting, 1:24 scale, three-story Tudor-style house and shop.  The shop, located on the ground level and reached by brick and stone steps, has a range of wall shelves to easily display goods while the wood beamed ceiling provides hanging areas for herbs, meats and other provisions.  The side door, located at the rear of the Store, leads to a staircase, which provides access to the gallery above and remaining upper floors.  The main hall is paneled and wooden oak stained casement windows look down on the street below while the top floor is used for sleeping. 

As with all Trigger Pond Cottages, the Store is an original design inspired by the craftsmanship of centuries ago.  The bones of each cottage are made from premium Birch plywood while the decorative carvings come from finely grained soft wood that accurately represents 1:24 scale.  Once completed, all of the floors and exposed woodwork are treated with high-quality beeswax to preserve the natural features of the wood.  Most models come with three electrical circuits that provide hidden lighting, giving each room its overall glow as well as flickering wall candles and burning fires.  And each building comes complete with intricately detailed, leaded light-effect windows, wooden doors with ironwork hinges and doorknobs and an individually tiled red roof typical of the period.

Trigger Pond cottages, pubs and inns are to be admired as much as they are fully functioning dollhouses.  A 1:24 scale, half-timbered English Cottage sitting on a coffee table or displayed on a corner bureau with its lights twinkling in a darkened sitting room is captivating, and evocative of years past.