Line Vautrin - Miroirs - 2004

Book by Line Vautrin, first edition of 2004.
!!!Limited to 2000 pieces!!!
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Unique creator, fiercely independent, Line Vautrin imagined, in post-war Paris, objects of intense poetry. Poudriers, boxes, brooches, necklaces, or gilded bronze ashtrays, engraved or enameled, they belong both to the art of jewelry, through their delicacy, and to sculpture, through their tactility. This plastic knowledge, Line Vautrin applied from the 1960s onward to a completely different category of objects and to a new material she called talosel. Thin sheets of resin, layered, scratched, scarified, and worked with fire, were marquetried with fine shards of mirrors, capturing the most subtle nuances, evoking slate or schist, bone, and wood worn by time. The works she created using this technique until her death in 1997 are now highly sought after and fetch impressive prices. They are now part of the history of 20th-century decorative arts. This book is the first to present them in all their splendor. It sketches a repertoire of the now dispersed works, while also illuminating the symbolic aspects—completely unknown—of these fascinating objects, which gather and diffract light, where the fire of the shards comes to set the pure water of the mirrors.