Christofle at Hamilton Home
Christofle was founded in Paris in 1830 by Charles Christofle, a jeweler who went on to secure the French rights to silver electroplating and build the country's leading silver house. It supplied the court of Napoleon III, the great hotels and the ocean liners, and it still produces silver and silver plate in its own workshops in Normandy. The house has long paired its traditional patterns with commissions from designers, most famously Andrée Putman's Vertigo line of 2002.
Hamilton Home carries Christofle for the bar, the table and the nursery. The Mood flatware set, twenty-four silver-plated pieces in a polished egg-shaped case, is the house's modern signature and a frequent wedding gift. Vertigo covers a bottle coaster, bowls, ice buckets and caviar servers, and the Malmaison champagne bucket draws on the Empire pattern of the same name. Silver-plated vases shaped like an onion or a bunch of carrots, and the Collections Historiques celery vase, make conversation pieces. The Talisman baby spoon and fork sets in ivory, ice blue and rose quartz enamel are given at christenings, and the Kiddush cup and Hanukkah menorah are kept for the holidays.
Silver should be seen in the light, and the collection is on display in Princeton and Palm Beach. Book an appointment and our team will help you choose a flatware pattern, add Christofle to a registry, or pick a baby gift. Every order is gift wrapped.
