About

Established in 1985, Kensington Dollshouse Festival is an event that brings together top dolls house makers & miniature artists from around the world with dolls house collectors & aficionados. Over 40 years, the Festival has become the top international show for quality dolls’ houses, baby houses, miniatures & models.

The world of miniatures is unique, where crafts of all disciplines are used on a tiny scale. Everything from metalwork, ceramics, needlepoint, furniture making, glassware & wickerwork. Also, skills in creating replica food from Fimo clay, tiny designer handbags & shoes, plants made from paper or clay: alongside the dolls and animals that inhabit this micro world.

All of the 130+ exhibitors taking part in the event are vetted to make sure their work is of the highest standard. KDF recruits the very best miniaturists from around the globe & are proud to have thousands customers travel to London from Asia, USA, Australia & Europe to visit the Festival every year.

The Kensington Dollshouse Festival is a great place to see all the different facets of this incredible secret world. Realism, fantasy, perfectionism, creativity or just having a go yourself. Miniaturism is an art form that is unexpected, but once you discover it, you become addicted to the way their world can be recreated to the highest level in the palm of your hand. This really is craft on a minuscule scale, where skill levels are heightened & detail is everything. A place where you will be blow away by the perfection of all the work you see.

Alongside their Summer Show this year, Kensington Dollshouse will have the Perfection in Miniature Awards, a competition anyone can enter with a prize fund of £10 000. Selected entries will be showcased at their Summer Show. Kensington Dollshouse also has workshops taking place at Priors Hall on the outskirts of London & a special visit to Leighton House, which is being replicated in miniature by renowned miniature house builders Mulvany & Rogers (their miniature version will be on display at our summer show).