Musée Bouilhet-Christofle was a French private museum located in the 8th arrondissement at 9,

rue Royale, Paris The Rue Royale () is a short street in Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place de la Madeleine (site of the Church of the Madeleine). The Rue Royale is in the city's 8th arrondissement. Among the well-known ad ...

, France. The museum's main collection was located in a Parisian suburb at 112, rue Ambroise Croizat, Saint-Denis, France. The museum closed in 2008. It was one of two museums of the Christofle company, along with the museum in Saint-Denis, which closed the same year. Maison Christofle was founded in 1830 by Charles Christofle (1805–1863), becoming silversmith to Emperor

Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last ...

and one of the major silversmiths in nineteenth-century France. The museum contained more than 2,000 items of silver plate and cutlery, reflecting the company's history from its founding to recent times. The museum displayed examples of naturalism,

Orientalism In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle ...

Japonism ''Japonisme'' is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japon ...

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

, items produced for the universal expositions,

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

and other styles. In addition, it documented a wide range of techniques, including

electroplating Electroplating, also known as electrochemical deposition or electrodeposition, is a process for producing a metal coating on a solid substrate through the redox, reduction of cations of that metal by means of a direct current, direct electric cur ...

and enameling. The museum also contained displays about the history of silver production, table settings and table manners.

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Christofle (includes description of the Musée Bouilhet-Christofle)
* ''Paris Visites'', Petit Futé, 2007, page 46. .
The Silver Bulletin: French Orientalist Silver of the Nineteenth‑Century

Tourisme93 description (French)
Defunct art museums and galleries in Paris Decorative arts museums in France Defunct museums in Paris 2008 disestablishments in France Art museums and galleries disestablished in 2008 {{France-museum-stub

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