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Line Vautrin

Line Vautrin (1913 - 1997) was active/lived in France.  Line Vautrin is known for Sculpture.

After brief stints with the couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and a Parisian photography firm, Line Vautrin taught herself metal foundry, which had been her father's trade, and went door-to-door selling her cast jewelry.  In 1937 she rented a stand at the Paris International Exposition that attracted enough clientele for her to open a shop in the Rue de Berri.  As business improved, she moved to the more fashionable Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.  Vautrin started out making jewelry, belts, powder compacts and buttons: At the time, the term for her line of work was parurière (one who makes and sells fashion accessories).   Eventually, however, she hit on her signature style, developing a material she coined talosel, which comprised layers of cellulose acetate that she carved, gouged, molded and encrusted with colored mirrored glass.  This new material enabled her to expand her repertoire to include larger objects such as the mirrors for whi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1717 characters.]  Artist bio

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