Why is it that things are so much more appealing when they’re smaller or bigger than they should be? Things, once mundane and therefore undesirable, gain a quality of instant ‘musthavedness’. Imagine if someone handed you a rolling pin. “Thanks man. That’s…nice of you…”. Now imagine that same friend handing you a rolling pin that was ten centimeters long. “Cool! Where’d you get this?” Even a plain book has a degree of aesthetic value, but not as much as a teensy weensy one, complete with pictures and micro-print. If someone gave you an antique chair, you may be stoked, but lets face it, it would be horribly out of place. Now, if they gave you a mini-antique chair, you’d display it proudly on your mantle.
