PUIFORCAT

FOUNDED IN PARIS IN 1820 BY EMILE PUIFORCAT, THE SILVERWARE COMPANY OWES MOST OF ITS RENOWN TO JEAN PUIFORCAT, WHO ESTABLISHED THE COMPANY IN THE AVANT-GARDE OF MODERN SILVERWORK. PUIFORCAT BEGAN EVOLVING TOWARDS THE HIGH-END OF THE SILVERSMITH’S TRADE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, RECREATING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MASTERPIECES THAT ARE NOW EXHIBITED AT THE LOUVRE MUSEUM IN PARIS. JEAN, A MASTER SILVERSMITH, IMMERSED HIMSELF IN THE WAVE OF ARTISTIC CHANGE THAT CHARACTERIZED THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE WARS. HIS UNFUSSY STYLE – CHARACTERIZED BY PURE, ARCHITECTURAL LINES, SIMPLICITY AND THE MARRIAGE OF SOLID SILVER WITH OTHER PRECIOUS MATERIALS SUCH AS EXOTIC WOODS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES–IS INSPIRED BY ART DÉCO AND WAS THE FOUNDING STONE FOR CONTEMPORARY HIGH-END SILVERWORK. JEAN PUIFORCAT’S WORK IS REGULARLY REVIVED AND STILL EXUDES THE SAME SPIRIT WE SEE IN CONTEMPORARY IN-HOUSE COLLECTIONS.