Fannia Weingartner

One of the things you can do if you are really, really rich is to indulge a passion. Fortunately for many Chicago-area children (not to mention adults), Mrs. James Ward Thorne had a passion for miniature interiors, as well as money. After years of collecting miniatures, she conceived the idea of creating miniature rooms, depicting real and imagined rooms from a variety of countries and eras. And then, in 1940, she donated them to the Art Institute of Chicago (which, outrageously, sold some show more of them, which ultimately landed in Phoeniz, AZ and Knoxville, TN).

This book contains photographs and detailed descriptions of the rooms at the AIOC. show less

Postcards of selected Thorne Rooms, bound into a book.Purchased during brief layover delivering Aged Parents to Chicago to catch train to Nebraska (before catching the MegaBus back to Ann Arbor)