upmarket dollhouse furniture.

for the budget conscious design-lover, and those of you with space constraints who have a love for the iconic pieces of the 20th century, i have stumbled upon the perfect thing for you. miniature designer chairs. corbusier, eames, reitveldt, van der rohe, panton, barcelona chair - they are all available. i don't know exactly what scale they are at, but they are friggin' tiny and barely big enough to sit a lego man in, but are a hell of a lot cheaper than the real thing, or even the ridiculosouly overpriced vitra miniatures that are on the market.
i'm still searching around for suppliers, but kinokuniya bookshop in sydney sells them as complete sets of 8 for about $150 bucks, (i think there are 6 series in total) which isn't bad, but there are a few chairs in each series that aren't really all that desirable to have in a collection. i've also found another little shop that sells them individually for a rather expensive $50 each, but i won't name and shame him because he's a mate and stocks some truly amazing stuff. and modcons in brisbane sells them from memory, but i can't remember if they are sold in a set or individually.
am going to try some sort of mail-order thing that will let me pick and choose the exact ones i want, will let you know if i succeed. check out the company that manufactures them, http://www.reacjapan.com/ (although their website is in japanese!)