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KITCHEN & TABLE

On the Table: Christofle

By Kate BettsFriday, Apr. 13, 2007
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Christofle candelabra

At CHRISTOFLE, newly installed artistic director Brigitte Fitoussi is dusting off the famous house by looking to fashion for inspiration and employing avant-garde designers like Richard Hutten from Droog and Martin Szekely, whose Radius candelabra (3) is also a bud vase.

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