"Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician" (SOLD) Cyril Gorainoff Hermes Paris

Hermes Paris

Line Vautrin has been fashioning whimsical

Her career took off from a shop in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore and a Louis XV hotel in the Marais

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"Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician" (SOLD) Cyril Gorainoff Hermes ParisLine Vautrin is one of those archetypally French personalities others are Cocteau, Piaf and Christian Berard whose talents are compounded of dreams, poetry, images from the past and a mischievous sense of fun. Since she was five years old, she has, like an alchemist turning base metals into gold, transformed humble materials into miracles of beauty and imagination. Even the war time scarcity of metals did not stop her; they made invention all the more