Each represents a particular type of fabric wear and
tear from repetition, deconstruction and alteration. “My
fabric dolls, are a kind of symbolic object, representing
attitudes and personalities. I play on the relationship
between clothes and object, I dress objects in order to
protect them and to tell their story” explains Gignoux.
She lists her raw materials as “damaged coverings,
darned, made from accumulation with colours faded by
time” and they are the basis for other works too;
dressed objects, clothes, accessories and installations.
All make use of Gignoux’s trademark stained cloths and
sepia tones. She may call her work as an ‘aesthetic dis
crepancy’ but it seems to add up perfectly.
Manon Gignoux Exhibition, 15 May-7 June, Egg,
36 Kinnerton Street, London SW1, T: 020 7235
9315, www.manon-gignoux.com
Pretty pair
Lynne and Michael Rochehave been making artist
dolls together for 28 years in their home in the Georgian
city of Bath. Most of their creations are porcelain
headed, with finely carved, articulated lime-wood
bodies. Lynne outlines the division of this labour of love
“Michael carves all the bodies and makes the moulds
and I paint them. We have never done any designs for
other companies, having always wanted complete
control of what we do.”
Roche Dolls are treasured for their workmanship.
Often it is the tiny accessories and beautiful clothes
which accompany a doll that draw out their personality
and make them so desirable. Lynne is an expert at
creating the outfits which encapsulate the theme of
each collection. She uses hand-dyed fabrics, yarns and
wonderful vintage fabrics. Lynne admits to a subcon
cious preference for a certain era, “I have often gone
towards the 50s, harking back to my own childhood.”
Yet even when inspired by soft focus memories her
attention to detail remains sharp, “I love embroidery
and appliquéés and of course knitting which enable
details to be in the right scale.” www.roche-dolls.co.uk
Care and attention
Museums Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood,
London, Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA
T: +44 (0)20 8983 5200 www.vam.ac.uk/moc• Deutsches
Puppen-und Bäärenmuseum, Sonnengasse 8, 56239 St.
Goar, Germany, T: +49 (0 67 41) 72 70, www.deutsches
puppen-und-baerenmuseum.de • Doll and Toy Museum
of the City of New York, 157 Montague Street, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201, T: +718 243 0820 www.dtmnyc.org
• Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, 1439
El Prado, San Diego CA 92101, T: +619 239 0003
www.mingei.org • Muséée de la Poupéée, Impasse Berthaud
(vers 22 rue Beaubourg) 75003 Paris, France T: +33 (01)
4272 7311, www.museedelapoupeeparis.com • Museum
of International Folk Art, Museum Hill, 706 Camino Lejo,
off Old Santa Fe Trail, New Mexico T: +505 476 1200
www.moifa.org • Pollock's Toy Museum, 1 Scala Street,
London W1T 2HL, T: +44 (0)20 7636 3452,
www.pollockstoymuseum.com • Rosalie Whyel Museum
of Doll Art, 1116 108th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004, T:
+425 455 1116, www.dollart.com • Strong National
Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, Rochester, NY
14607, T: +585 263 2700 www.museumofplay.org • The
Johnny Gruelle Raggedy Ann & Andy Museum 110 East
Main Street, Arcola, Illinois 61910, T: +217 268 4908
www.raggedyann-museum.org • The Toy Museum, Old
Count's Chambers of Prague Castle, George Lane 6,
T: +420 326 316 595, www.spielzeugmuseum-muenchen.de
• Yokohama Doll Museum, 18 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku,
Yokohama 2310023, Japan, T: +45 671 9361,
www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp • Hospitals New York
Doll Hospital Inc, 787 Lexington Ave., New York T: +212
838 7527 • The Doll Hospital & Toy Soldier Shop, 3947 12
Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072, T: +248 543 3115,
www.reallygreattoys.com •The Dolly Doctors, Tina & Steve
Watts, The Doll Infirmary, 13 Windsor Road, Thanington
Without, Kent, T: +44 (0)1227 479387 •TLC Doll Hospital,
Box 271, Kleinburg, Ontario L0J 1C0, Canada, T: +905
893 1295 www.tlcdollshop.com• Toy Repair Service,
Hilary Brown, 5 Scratton Road, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex,
England, T: +44(0)1375 677941, www.toyrepairs.co.uk •••
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