Christofle

Résumé :
"The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which has maintained close ties with Christofle since the second half of the 19th century, is celebrating the goldsmith's creations and expertise with the largest exhibition ever dedicated to this factory, which has a rich history spanning almost two hundred years. Since its foundation in the 1830s, this lineage of silversmiths, created by Charles Christofle and continued by Henri Bouilhet, has transformed the lines and decorations of silver to adapt them to everyday life. In association with the greatest designers such as Luc Lanel, Gio Ponti, Andrée Putman and Karl Lagerfeld, Christofle is an artistic laboratory that revolutionizes traditional goldsmithing by renewing its uses and adorning it with unprecedented colors and decorations. The rich iconography of the exhibition catalog invites us to discover some of the most remarkable pieces. In doing so, it plunges us into the splendor of great restaurants and palaces such as the Ritz, legendary trains, liners and planes 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. Through 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 goldsmithing, from historicism to Japonism, from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, from 1950s design to the most contemporary"
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