All Miniature Models

Two weeks out from Halloween (aka our Superbowl), this piece hits exactly the right mood: teetering cottages, lanterns that look like they gossip, and—cue drumroll—the hero piece on the left: a towering, skeletal figure with elegant crow-like posture, part ringmaster, part “I definitely didn’t put frog in that elixir.” The colors are Burton-bright where it matters (those bottles!) and desaturated everywhere else, which makes the stand hum like a tiny neon sign in an old black

Once upon a thyme (yes, we went there), Madame Ficus ran a wildly popular indoor plant speakeasy beneath the cobbled streets of Montpetit—a fictional, vaguely French town where pigeons wear berets and every baguette is perfectly crisp. After the Great Terracotta Shortage of ’47 (don’t Google it, it’s not real), she emerged from her underground jungle with a mission: bring greenery and guffaws back to the people...

The diorama’s design inspiration can be traced back to the Modern Industrial aesthetic, which originated in the loft apartments of NYC…