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Read here about what I saw at Art Mundi 2008.

Anyna Miniaturas stand

Ana Adalgisa, a miniaturist from Parana - in the South of Brazil, shows 7 of her roomboxes. Among them is her latest 'hospital', a beautiful Victorian style dollhouse furnished as an old times hospital/clinic.
Her roomboxes are beautiful and filled with perfect details, everywhere. And the best part is that it's possible to buy a copy of each and every object used in her rooms to make or complete your own. Super!

Miniature Origamis - Oriental Sector

Two sisters, Japanese descendant, created Art Oriente. They make miniature origames, so perfect they are iresistable! They don't use any scale, but their dolls, roses or tsurus (a bird), which come inside a dome or a transparent box, would fit perfectly as ornaments in any 1:12 dollhouse or roombox. And they are very affordable!

Célia Santiago

This artist from Embu, SP - a small town know for its arts & crafts products - has some of her 'pictures' exhibited at a dedicated space in the fair. Each piece depicts a small village in miniature. The scale used is a little bigger than 1:144 (something between 1:120 and 1:87), but they are so rich in details that all visitors fall in love with them!

Worth checking!

The Smallest Printed Books

Os Menores Livros do Mundo are 100% readable. They have over 300 books on their list, in Spanish, in Portuguese and in English. . Most of them are about 6 cm (2in1/4), and about 1 cm (3/8in) thick. Again, not meant for dollhouse scales, but still pretty small.

As if that size was not enought, they also have hardcover real books that are about 4 cm (1in1/2) and also 2 cm (5/8in)!!! If you want, you can also purchase them with their corresponding shelf. Those, no doubt, would fit well any 1:12 dollhouse setting! From R$ 15 on.

Oh, and they also sell full bookshelves specially designed for their books.

I had already seen them at Book Fair (Bienal do Livro) and it was good to find them again in Art Mundi.

What else?

As all the above was not enouth, it's still possible to find mini-sculptures at our neighbor countries' stands (Peru, Equator, Mexico, Guatemala), mini perfume bottles from mid-east countries, and also Murano crystals from Italy.

And that's not all: the whole fair is gorgeous!!!! Unless you had scheduled, for the next few days, a trip around the world with stoppovers in the 27 countries represented in this fair, plus in the Brazilian States that also came, plus in some Amazon Indian area, you'd better find some time in your busy schedule to go check it...

It's a one in a lifetime chance to check first hand and, why not, buy some wonderful and delicate crafts work origined from - literally - every corner of the world!!!

And at very affordable prices.

In General

It's really worth going to this fair/show.

The day I went there there were no lines, neither to the restrooms or at the food corner. But it was an unexpected rainy and cold day, so it must have scared visitors away.... :)

They provide free shuttle transportation from and back to Tiete Subway station. The day I went there the intervals between each was way too long and there were so few vans that there was a big chanc you wouldn't be able to get in and would have to wait long for the next one. They clame they have already sorted this out and it's no longer a problem. Another option is to drive there, part (for free) at 'Shopping Center Norte' (a mall) and walk there, as it's not thatfar...