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Festive, fairy-size holiday homes

The Art Institute of Chicago's exquisite Thorne Rooms -- decorated for the season -- are a wonder to behold

By Emma Mustich

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The Art Institute of Chicago

Curator Lindsay Mican Morgan puts the finishing touches on a Christmas tree for the miniature Victorian English Drawing Room.
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago

English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period (1550-1603).
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Morgan adding decorations to the colonial Williamsburg-themed room.
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Detail of the garlanded bannister in the colonial Williamsburg room.
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Finished Williamsburg-style Virginia Entrance Hall (1751-55).
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Morgan at work on a Hanukkah display for a 1940s-style California hallway.
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The Art Institute of Chicago

The finished 1940s-era California Hallway.

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