Christofle (English Edition)

Exhibition Catalogue Christofle. A brilliant history, presented at the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris (14 November 2024 - 20 April 2025).

In association with the greatest designers such as Luc Lanel, Gio Ponti, Andrée Putman and Karl Lagerfeld, Christofle is an artistic laboratory that revolutionises traditional goldsmithing by renewing its uses and adorning it with new colours and decorations.

The rich iconography of the exhibition catalogue invites us to discover some of the most remarkable pieces. In the process, it plunges us into the splendour of great restaurants and palaces such as the Ritz, legendary trains, liners and aircraft such as the Orient-Express, the Normandie and the Concorde, as well as places of political power, all equipped by Christofle, ambassador, in France and abroad, of the art of living and luxury à la française.

In thirteen thematic essays divided into four chapters, this book traces the extraordinary destiny of the House of Christofle. Sixty-one notes cover the history of the decorative arts as translated into goldsmith's and silversmith's art, from historicism to Japonism, from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, from 1950s design to the most contemporary.