Contains photographs and descriptions of Tasha Tudor's dollhouse collection, which is a one-quarter-scale version of the author's early-nineteenth-century-style Vermont home, Corgi Cottage.
Recounts the history of the Ephrussis family during the tumultuous events of the twentieth century, intertwined with the story behind a collection of netsuke that was smuggled away by a loyal maid when family members were imprisoned or scattered and their books are art were confiscated by Nazis.