Violise Lunn, paper dreams

She has just arrived on the island of Bornholm, in south-eastern Denmark, swept away by a storm which she hopes will not compromise our FaceTime connection.

Mobile in hand, it moves from one room to another in search of a network, allowing us to see sections of a decor of deliciously old-fashioned Scandinavian sobriety.

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How to imagine it elsewhere than on this islet at the end of the world, emerging from the waters of the Baltic?

We can easily guess the house beaten by the winds, the sea roaring in the distance… This romanticism is perfectly suited to this compulsive collector of old objects, as useless as they are charming.

Violise Lunn, a young fifty-something, creates elf pumps and princess dresses out of paper that Hans Christian Andersen himself would not have denied.

She has a first name that does not exist, Violise, invented by her 3-year-old sister who baptized her like this when she was born.

And a name, Lunn, which, if it had been a little shorter, would have

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