Crescente Miniatures

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with miniatures. I remember when I was five years old, my dad carried me on his shoulders and I would look down and imagine that I was a giant. Everything looked so small to me, chairs, tables, my sisters just about all that was in the room. I felt as if I can pick things up with my hands. I guess this must have been the beginning of my addiction to the miniature world.

One Christmas Santa gave me a train set and I remember how excited I was. The set came complete with a little village and station made out of cardboard. I must have been 6 or 7 years old and it seems like only yesterday. As I got older, I expanded with building more houses, trees, and roads. It looked so real that I would imagine shrinking myself down into what I had created.

I was totally infatuated. I continued building model kits, Cars, airplanes, ships, anything that had to do with being smaller than actual size. Most of what I would buy was made out of plastic. I would frequently visit my hobby store to see if anything was new. One day I was introduced to a wooden model ship. This gave me a whole new challenge and loving a good challenge, I purchase the wooden kit along with whatever tools I needed. At first I thought I would not be able to build a kit made out of wood but, I put my mind to it and found that I actually enjoyed working with this new material.

I continued to buy more wooden models and expand my knowledge with this natural material. I learned that not all woods are the same. The hard woods are good for fine carvings where the softer woods are good for framing and cutting shapes. But in all, I found that wood is a beautiful material to work with and that I can just about make anything from scratch.

By building these kinds of kits, they have introduced me to working with different materials and other artistic crafts. For instants, the lost wax method that jewelers use and that I adapted to my work of making ormolu for furniture, chandeliers, and railings that I made for my Titanic's grand staircase. This is one of many artistic craft that I have learned and there are plenty of others that I plan to achieve after all, you rally never stop learning. My passion for building and designing led me to my profession, Architecture and interior design which I have been practicing for the past thirty years. I enjoy building scale models. They help my clients see how my designs will look in reality. This is what I bring to all my miniatures the concept of reality. I know that when I hear someone say “I wish I could have a real one like that” I have archived what I set out to do. My goal is, to continue expanding my artistic abilities and to create a realistic looking miniature world for me and for all those who are truly miniature lovers.