Christofle

Christofle is a Parisian silversmith founded in 1830 by Charles Christofle, one of the houses that gave French haute orfèvrerie its modern standing. Its workshops brought electroplating to France in the 1840s, a technique that made silver tableware available well beyond royal courts, and the maison became imperial goldsmith to Napoléon III.

The house is still based in Paris, with its flagship in the Pavillon de Hanovre on the grands boulevards, and produces flatware, tableware, barware, home decoration and jewellery under the motto “only one quality, the best”. Collections such as Malmaison and Iriana and the collaboration with Charlotte Chesnais keep goldsmith tradition in dialogue with contemporary design; in 2023 Christofle exhibited at Design Shanghai for the fair’s tenth-anniversary edition.