Lundby (company)

Lundby (company)

Lundby is a Swedish maker of dollshouses and miniature furniture for the mass market. Lundby dollshouse furniture has been produced since 1947 and their dollshouses have been sold since the late 1940's. Lundby claims to have been the first to have had electrical lights in their dollshouses ("child safe" 4 volt rather than the more standard 12 volt) and are always striving to follow the trends of interior and furniture design.

The most common Lundby house style is the Gothenburg, which has remained very similar in style from the 1960s through to 2006 when it was discontinued in favour of the Småland dollshouse. There have been many other styles of Lundby dollshouse introduced over the years, such as the Stockholm House in 1975 (and a newer more modern version in 2006).

Lundby houses, furniture and accessories are 3/4-inch scale, also known as 1/16 scale, where 1 foot in real life is 3/4 inch in dollshouse size. Other houses of the same scale include the following brands (all are discontinued except for BRIO which is one of the largest producers of wooden toys in Europe): BRIO (Swedish), Lerro (Swedish), Micki (Swedish), Lisa of Denmark (Danish), Hanse (Danish), Caroline's Home (British) and A.B Barton (British), as well as a number of American tin houses with plastic furniture.

House styles

The Lundby house - Early 1950's

The earliest style of house produced was of a basic rectangular shape with a bright red pitched roof, a blue painted frame and paper brickwork on the outside. It consisted of 5 rooms (3 on the first floor and 2 on the ground). It had a wooden spiral staircase which lead from the largest room to the central room on the first floor. Houses of this style could either be electrified or unelectrified. Rival dollshouse manufacturer Lerro produced houses in the same style and dimensions; however the roof, frame and brickwork were different colours to that of the Lundby model.

The 'Gothenburg' house - 1960's

As with most Lundby dollshouses produced from the mid 1940s to the 1990s there were many significant and minor variations on each model. This particularly applied to the Gothenburg dollshouse first introduced in the early 1960s. With funky wallpaper, a white frame, a bright red pitched roof, 2 rooms on the first floor and 3 rooms on the ground floor it became Lundby's most popular house and gradually their mainstay of dollshouse production. It is easy to distinguish between early and later versions of this house during the 1960s. The early model (1960 - 1965) featured light blue floors, a wooden staircase with full banisters, a tall chimney (1.7") and a wall with an open doorway which divided the bathroom in two. Later models (1966 - 1969) reduced the height of the chimney (0.75") to its present day size and no longer retained the bathroom's dividing wall.

Lundby Gothenburg (1961-64 model) from the Baird private collection

The 'Terrace' or 'Flat Roof' house - 1960's

Lundby's success with the Gothenburg model gave them the chance to experiment with new house designs. This culminated in the production of the 'Flat Roof' or 'Terrace' house between 1966-67. As its name suggests it had a flat roof, allowing children to place garden furniture on it. Two different models were produced - one which was a solid two storey house and another which came flat packed and could be constructed up to three or four storeys high.

After winning 'Best Toy' award in 1967 by the Swedish Toy Merchants Association, Lundby continued to improve and further the design of the Gothenburg dollshouse. By the latter half of the 1960's the stairs were no longer made of wood, but plastic and the window frames were moulded in white plastic with Perspex imitation glass.

The 'Economy' house - Late 1960's

At the tail end of the 1960's Lundby adapted the Gothenburg design to create a cheaper, unelectrified house with wider market appeal, called the 'Economy' house. The number of rooms were the same as the Gothenburg but reversed; so the ground floor had two and the first floor three rooms.

External links

* [http://www.lundby.com/eng/lundby.asp Lundby's official website]
* [http://www.swedish-dollshouses.com Swedish Dollshouses website] - Superb resource and collections of Lundby and 1/16th scale dollshouses.
* [http://www.mckendry.net/LUNDBY%20DOLLHOUSE/LUNDBY.htm History of Lundby by Jennifer McKendry]
* [http://dollhouse.mine.nu Peppe's Dollshouses] - Fantastic collection of Lundby, Lerro, Brio and Kahrs dollshouses, plus PDFs of old Lundby catalogues available for download.
* [http://www.toysmiles.com We Love Lundby Club] - Website for Lundby dollshouse collectors and enthusiasts.


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