Make a Wish for the New Year
Over a holiday lunch in Manhattan, my good friend Pam Connolly and I watched an eight-year-old girl arranging furniture in a dollhouse at Bergdorf’s. Eye-level with the dollhouse floors, she moved the miniature pieces around to her liking, imagining the home of her dreams. Where would she put the sofa? The Christmas tree? We wondered about her process as we recognized the homemaking instinct that is so hard-wired in us females from childhood.
Pam is also my life-long photographer, and her eye for bringing homescapes to life has not only complemented but elevated my interior design work for as long as I have been doing this. The images featured here are from her fine art series called Wishmaker, which explores the brightly rendered miniature rooms of tin dollhouses from the 1960s. Peering in the windows like an oversized Alice in Wonderland, her camera blurs the line between imagination and reality. As one reviewer wrote, “A dollhouse is a microcosm of hopes and dreams, the pocket female fantasy.”
The eight-year-old me would agree.
~ Katie
Photography by Pam Connolly
