Collection II — Northside Modelworks
Northern & Italian Renaissance — 1480–1620
The most architecturally serious collection in the Northside Modelworks catalogue. Carved ceilings, painted walls, architectural chimneypieces, state beds of extraordinary complexity. The pieces here are not decorative accessories. They are the architecture of the room in miniature.
The Chambord Collection takes its name from the Château de Chambord — François I's great hunting lodge on the Loire, begun in 1519, and one of the first great expressions of Italian Renaissance architecture in France. It was a meeting point of worlds: the Italian formal tradition arriving in the North, encountering the robust carved oak interiors of Flanders and England, the painted and gilded rooms of the German workshop tradition, the intarsia panels and architectural furniture of Italy.
This is the world before upholstery dominated the interior — where the room itself is the ornament. Carved ceilings, painted walls, architectural chimneypieces, massive state beds with turned and carved posts, cabinet furniture of extraordinary complexity. The Chambord Collection addresses this world in its full geographic range — French, Flemish, German, English, and Italian prototypes from 1480 to 1620.
It is the most architecturally serious collection in the Northside Modelworks catalogue. The pieces here are not decorative accessories. They are the architecture of the room in miniature.
Photographed in the studio's Northern Renaissance bedroom and gallery.
Collection Details
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Chambord Collection
England / France, c. 1580–1620
Massive carved four-poster state bed with turned and carved columns, canopied tester, and paneled headboard. The dominant architectural element of any Renaissance interior.
Based on surviving state bed types from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period; reference examples at Hardwick Hall and the V&A.
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Chambord Collection
Germany / Flanders, c. 1560–1600
Two-stage cabinet with architectural pilaster façade, carved grotesque panels, and drawer arrangement. Based on the Augsburg and Antwerp cabinet tradition.
Inspired by documented examples from the Augsburg workshop tradition; comparable pieces in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum and the Rijksmuseum.
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Chambord Collection
Italy / France, c. 1540–1580
Rectangular marriage chest with carved panel façade, bracket feet, and iron hardware. A foundational piece of any Italian or Franco-Italian Renaissance interior.
Based on Italian cassone types of the mid-16th century; reference examples in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Chambord Collection offers the most architecturally serious Renaissance dollhouse miniatures and 1:12 scale furniture available — state beds, Renaissance cabinets, cassoni, and architectural elements drawn from museum prototypes across the Northern and Italian Renaissance tradition. The collection is the most architecturally complex in the catalogue. New pieces — chimneypieces, wall panels, architectural fragments — are added as photography and documentation are completed.
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