spectacular exhibition of the goldsmith’s house at the Museum of Decorative Arts

spectacular exhibition of the goldsmith’s house at the Museum of Decorative Arts
spectacular exhibition of the goldsmith’s house at the Museum of Decorative Arts

Until April 20, 2025, the Parisian museum retraces the history of this factory, born in 1830.

Last September, in the artistic pieces workshop of the Christofle factory, in Yainville, in Seine-Maritime, the expert hands of the goldsmiths were busy completing on time the above all called “Ode to origins”, a flagship piece of the he exhibition “Christofle, a brilliant story” which begins today at the Museum of Decorative Arts (MAD). Designed by Jean-Pierre Cottet-Dubreuil – a young goldsmith who took over the Richard workshops in 3e district of – this contemporary creation, 4 meters long, in silver metal, mirror and rock crystal, composed of cups and candelabras, required a year and a half and thousands of hours of work. She reinvents the idea of ​​these large centerpieces, serving both as decoration and as a support for arranging salt and pepper, serving dishes, candles or bouquets of flowers. At MAD, it echoes the Especially with Dolphins, designed in 1925 by Christofle in a…

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