Christofle

Christofle

Company type	SAS
Industry	consumer products distribution retail sale of furniture, lighting equipment and other household articles in specialised stores
Founded	1830
Founder	Charles Christofle
Headquarters	9 rue Royale, Paris , France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Nathalie Rémy, CEO
Products	silverware
Revenue	51 262 100 € in 2017
Number of employees	211 in 2017
Website	www.christofle.com

Christofle is a goldsmith and tableware company, founded in Paris in 1830 by Charles Christofle. The company is known for having introduced electrolytic gilding and silver plating in France in 1842. The company was bought in 2012 by one of its shareholders, the luxury group: Chalhoub family.

Bibliography

• Style on a Silver Platter, India Today, 2/28/08
• Rosenberg, David (2006). Christofle. Perseus Distribution Services. ISBN 9782843236570.
• de Ferrière Le Vayer, Marc (1995). Christofle, Deux siècles d'aventure industrielle, 1793-1993 (in French). Le Monde éditions, Silver industry. p. 456. ISBN 9782878991055.
• The History of Silver, Claude Blair, Ballantine Publishing Group, 1987
• Modern Art of Metalwork: Brohan-Museum Collection VI, Berlin, 2001
• (fr) Des cheminées dans la plaine: cent ans d'industrie à Saint-Denis, autour de Christofle (1830-1930), creaphis editions, 1998 - 203 pages, ISBN 9782907150859[1].
• (fr) Christofle le maître de l'argent, Le Point, 2010 [2]

External links

• Official Christofle website
• A timeline of Christofle maker's marks
• Christofle at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
• Christofle on Artnet

• Mobilier national (France) collections