Glorious high fashion resin dolls, in an astonishing range of characters and fashions
The Numina dolls are made by Paul Pham for his company, Dollcis. They are 16-inch tall, couture dolls, sculpted in resin, with a careful balance between jointing and aesthetics.
Pham creates these dolls from his base in Manchester, Connecticut. The Dollcis name is from the Latin dulsis, which means “pleasing or delightful to the senses.”
Since the first of the Numina dolls was introduced in 2008, their prolific creator has made an astonishing number of these articulated beauties. We are going to see just a sampling of the many Numina dolls. They are typically produced in very limited quantities, sometimes in editions of as many as 75, but often as just a single doll. The names of the dolls frequently provide interesting backstories in their own right.
Let’s take a look at some of the beautiful faces of the Numina.
THE MANY FACES OF NUMINA
Since 2009, Paul Pham has created an astonishing number of dolls. Remarkable not only for the quantity produced, but also for the wide array of face-sculpts the designer has made. A selection of these is shown above.
Additionally, the individual sculpts are painted to achieve even more characters for the line. One of these faces, Emry, is shown above in various guises.