"A Dolls’ House" auction raises nearly £90,000 for KIDS charity in London

2013-11-14T13:40:00-05:00

The Cathedral Group's A Dolls' House raised close to £90,000 at the end of the live auction event on Nov. 11 at Bonhams in London. The project invited 20 well-known UK architects, who collaborated with artists and other designers, to create their own doll houses with the goal to raise £100,000 for the KIDS charity. Architects included Adjaye Associates, FAT, MAKE, Zaha Hadid Architects, Coffey Architects, and Studio Egret West.

The doll houses were then auctioned for online from September to noon on Nov. 11, and finally at the live auction event that evening. To read more on the project, click here.

Here's a part of the Cathedral Groups press release on the event:

"The stylish event saw over 400 guests come together to celebrate and bid on the selection of dolls’ houses, including models by Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye. The highest bid of the evening was for Zaha Hadids’ dolls’ house, ‘This must be the place’ reaching an impressive £14,000.

Not far behind was the 1.5m hi...

Doll houses designed by 20 big-name architects such as Adjaye, Zaha, DRMM, FAT, Make to be auctioned for KIDS charity in November

2013-10-09T17:52:00-04:00

A Dolls' House, a project by Cathedral Group, adds a contemporary twist to a childhood pastime. The UK developer rounded up 20 big-name UK architecture firms -- like Adjaye Associates, Zaha Hadid Architects, Coffey Architects, dRMM, Duggan Morris, FAT, MAKE, and Studio Egret West -- in collaboration with designers and artists to have each of them create their own modern version of a doll house that will be auctioned in November to raise £100,000 for KIDS, a charity that supports disabled children, young people, and their families throughout England. The doll houses will also be presented and exhibited at Bonhams before they are auctioned at an evening event on November 11.

Aside from showing off the personal visions of each design team, these one-of-a-kind doll houses include at least one element designed specifically as a learning aid for children with a disability.

Among the list of well-established names and their reinvented doll houses include MAKE Architects whose "Jigsaw ...

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"A Dolls’ House" auction raises nearly £90,000 for KIDS charity in London

Doll houses designed by 20 big-name architects such as Adjaye, Zaha, DRMM, FAT, Make to be auctioned for KIDS charity in November