All Miniature Models

Welcome to Casa Pequeña de los Vientos, founded (legend says) in 1919, when a retired tile-maker named Isidro Ventana followed a stray cat into a courtyard and decided the sunlight there was unusually well-behaved. He built the cottage in stages, bartering clay pots for cedar planks and trading stories for wrought iron...

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...