Tables D'argent : Du Grand Art De Recevoir À La Française

Signing at the Lardanchet bookshop on Wednesday 6 November 2024 from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm

The tables in this book feature some of the finest, rarest and most prestigious solid silver objects in the history of French art over the last three hundred years. Each table plunges us into a unique atmosphere: a supper under the reign of Louis XVI or a dinner during the Second Empire, a tête-à-tête in the 1930s, a cocktail party in town or a tea break accompanied by mignardises.

Far from being frozen in time, these exceptional tables are alive. They are moments for entertaining and sharing, where every detail counts, and where, faced with the splendour of the gold and silver, we can better understand the complexity and beauty of an art of entertaining that is so typically French.