In 1969, Line Vautrin and her daughter founded A.D.A.M., the Association pour le Développement des Arts Manuels (the Association for the Development of Manual Arts), a craft school where she taught metalworking and jewelry making to a predominantly female student body. Tapping into the burgeoning popularity of craftwork, Vautrin transformed one room of her apartment into an atelier. She recalled, "I noticed that there was a sudden surge of interest in handcrafting in the Sixties. Women were knitting again, creating jewelry, making ceramics, and glass beads." Her daughter, Maurie-Laure, added, "Mother told her students that she was going to teach them a real profession. In 50 lessons, they were going to learn how to make lamps, mirrors, and objets in the studio and could take their projects home to finish." The school also offered some of the raw materials Vautrin employed in her own practice, such as mirrors and sheets of Talosel. No prior art education or experience was required, and students were encouraged to be creative. Her classes were even reputed for their therapeutic qualities, and psychiatrists encouraged patients suffering from depression to enroll. Marie-Laure remembers, "As long as they were able to cope with the flame, the work with eye/hand coordination often restored their equilibrium."
