"The value of dolls for children is equivalent to the value which themselves have for their parents.

Children and their [dolls-] children have now themselves their own dream villa. The dolls villa is for them what the large house is for the [grand-]parents. A field. With own values, standards, rules, freedoms. To have a good grow. Equivalence of child and adult is core strength. No head emphasis on the half-measure, on the format. The soul, the intuition, the instinct, the character are essential. Grow of the physical body, skills, talents and knowledge-developments are growing on this floor. The earth and the grain, the earth and it's wood. Showing the value of the earth. The beginning lies at the start. At the children of our children".

Thesedays boys are using specific boys' dolls on large scale. This will change something in the next generation. Boys will learn to improve themselves to move in another one, by playing from the position of the living of the doll's.

The dolls villa stimulates this way the empathy-capacity at girls and boys, as a result of which women en men improve each other will sense.

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General editor Harlekijn, an arts magazine | head of the national library for arts education | public relations officer | originator and member of the board of a relief supplies for the parents of serious sick children in the academic hospital Maastricht [1994-1998]. 

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In 1996, Liliane M.E.M. Limpens started designing wooden play-furniture for her own children.

"It all started with mister Vermeulen, in Grave. The father of a girlfriend made a lovely barbie-wardrobe for me. My own father made some wooden play-furnitures for the garden. As a little girl, this touched me deeply. I had never worked with wood before, but I knew there would come a day when I too would make durable wooden objects to supplement my children's toy collection".

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The modern dolls villa that Liliane built in the winter of 1997-1998 won praise from friends and family. It was unique in many ways: its size, its modern design, its mobility and its potentially enormous target group.

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Right from the beginning, there were people who recognized the villa’s potential and who tried to convince Liliane to go commercial. But she was hesitant: "When I started to make new products out of wood, that primeval material, that was a turning-point in my life. Right now, there is hardly any outside influence on my work. I can go purely by instinct and follow my own insight. This releases energy I never dreamt I had. When I give added value to one of my designs, this is often reflected in how others respond to it. I realize this creative process will come to an end if I start selling my products. I have decided not to do this. I don't want the production process and the marketing to become the main focus of my work"

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Liliane gradually started to see the potential of her own design. Her target group is enormous: girls and boys aged 3 to 14, nearly all of whom owned at least one 12” doll. For most kids, playing with dolls is an important pastime.

At 18 juni 1999 foundation of the company LILIANE, design and production of innovative play-furniture. The dolls villa went into production at a Dutch wooden toy factory. Liliane had gone professional. In the autumn of 1999, De Bijenkorf department store in Amsterdam and a chain of children’s shops called Sterre + Tijl became the first retailers to sell the LILIANE dolls villa. In 2000 the villa is the winner of the National Award Innovative Products. From 2006 Germany is the new production-location of the dolls villa. In 2008 introduction of the LILIANE light dolls villa.

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