QUEEN OF CARDBOARD

Imagine walking into a room, filled with gilded 18th century furniture, chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and aristocratic old portraits and paintings on the walls. Wonderful? You turn your head slightly and a shadow catches you by surprize. Mon Dieu! Nothing is as it seems... Everything in the room is made out of cardboard! Amelie Dillemann is Queen of this domain, and the true master of corrugated fluting. In her talented hands, shipping boxes we generally throw out become gold-leafed museum pieces in disguise. Details abound and demand a closer look. She tries never to copy things the same as originals prefering to tweek history a little, mix things up... This suits her vision of herself well, 'one who has classical taste and panache yet loves to challange convention, laughs at those who take themselves too seriously and delights in tricking the mind and eye.' (link)