French jewelry designer Line Vautrin

French jewelry designer Line Vautrin (1913-1997)
Born in 1913, renowned French designer Line Vautrin has found her own path in jewelry design. She created jewelry and decorative objects of rare beauty, truly wearable art.

A future designer, inventor, entrepreneur and educator, Vautrin became interested in metalworking technology at a young age. So, she mastered casting, gilding and bronze chasing at her family’s foundry. Continuing to become acquainted with ancient cultures, hieroglyphs, pictograms, as well as ancient metalworking methods, she traveled widely.
She turned the acquired knowledge, skills and artistic vision into the design of allegorical and exquisite jewelry. In addition, the designer’s calling card was the use of symbolic images and poetry on gilded bronze. Noteworthy, in 1948 Vogue called her “the poetess of metal.”

It is important to note that, together with her daughter Marie-Laure, Lin Vautrin founded the Association for the Development of the Handicrafts, where she taught metalworking and jewelry making.
Vautrin died in 1996, leaving a rich legacy of unique works filled with poetry, tales and mythology.

French jewelry designer Line Vautrin