Christofle
| Type | SAS |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1830 |
| Founder(s) | Charles Christofle |
| Headquarters |
9 rue ROYALE |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | silverware |
| Website | www.christofle.com |
Christofle is a manufacturer of fine silver flatware and home accessories based in France since 1830. They are renowned for their sterling, silverplate and stainless flatware. Among Christofle's product lines are silver picture frames, crystal vases and glassware, porcelain dinnerware and silver jewelry. Christofle is also well known for their silver holloware.
Artists and designers such as the famous parisian silversmith Antoine Perrin (AP), Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Gio Ponti, Andrée Putman, Martin Szekely, Ito Morabito (Ora-Ïto) and Richard Hutten are among those whose creations have been made by Christofle.
The origins of Christofle date to 1830 when jeweler Charles Christofle assumed management of a jewelry workshops pertaining to his wife's family. In 1951, Christofle agreed with Ernest Cardeilhac to purchase the Cardeilhac tools and patterns. (During the First Empire, Antoine Cardeilhac was a well known sterling silversmith in Paris in honor of Napoleon I.)[1] Christofle today is under the control and ownership of the Christofle family, the current generation being represented by Maurizio Borletti. Christofle was publicly traded until 1998, when Borletti and others took the firm private.
Christofle manufactures their products in France and in Brazil, and they are sold worldwide through 75 Pavillon Christofle retail stores and also through 400 department stores and specialty shops.
See also
The Musée Bouilhet-Christofle is a private museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
References
- The History of Silver, Claude Blair, Ballantine Publishing Group, 1987
- Modern Art of Metalwork: Brohan-Museum Collection VI, Berlin, 2001
- Christofle: A legend revisited, Sibel Dorsan, Diplomat Monthly Magazine, June 2006
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