phantasmagoric fauna interview and photos by OLIVIER ZAHM All artworks courtesy of the artist OLIVIER ZAHM — How did it all start? HARUMI KLOSSOWSKA DE ROLA — The jewelry came before the decorative objects, which are a recent development. When I was a child, I liked to play with garden stones. I’d find them and keep them for their shape or color. I’d make little animals or characters, after my fashion. Only my father [the painter Balthus] would keep them safely put away. Then when I was about seven, my parents and I went to Paris and stayed with Claude Bernard, my father’s gallerist. He had an apartment filled with minerals and a whole room devoted to his collection of stones. At the time, my eyes were exactly level with the showcases. It was wondrous, one of my great memories. Every time I entered that room, I would spend hours…