Line Vautrin: Miroirs by Patrick Mauries (Book)

by Line Vautrin & Patrick Mauries Line Vautrin is one of those archetypally French personalities - others are Cocteau, Piaf and Christian Berard - whose talents are compounded of dre...

Piero Fornasetti lived and worked in Milan from 1935 until his death in 1988. during this long career he established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all hi...

In 1931, aged 29, Jean Royère (1902-1981) resigned from a comfortable position in the import-export trade in order to set up business as an interior designer. He learnt his new trade in the cabinetmaking workshops of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris. In 1934, he designed the new layout of the Brasserie Carlton on the Champs Elysées and found immediate success, embarking upon an international career that was to endure for nearly half a century. Royère tackled all kinds of decoration work and opened branches in the Near East and Latin America; among his patrons were King Farouk, King Hussein...

The revival of the decorative arts in post-war France is extremely diverse, from the 40's style which endures through official orders to classical or neoclassical furniture whose suc...

Sequins by Line Vautrin – Talosel mirror encrusted with pink, amber and gold mirrors. Mirror consisting of a large dark brown Talosel ring...

A stunning French convex wall mirror by Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997) circa 1950s-1960s. A relatively rare model called "Tudor". Textured talosel construction with si...

Witch mirror in brown talosel with inlaid pieces of golden mirror. Signed "Line Vautrin" on the reverse, circa 1960.  

Rare mirrored glass and talosel resin ''Gribiche'' mirror by Line Vautrin .Signed: LINE VAUTRIN at the back Talosel resin is derived from cellulose acetate and the name is shortened...