Christofle - Sabattini - "como" Tea/coffee Service In Solid Silver 1957/1968

CHRISTOFLE-CARDEILHAC & Lino SABATTINI (born in 1925), designer. COMO model, created around 1956-1957 Modernist tea and coffee service in solid silver comprising four pieces: coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug. Plain silver, and a rectangular tray with handles covered in imitation raffia fibers. Scratches from use. small dent, these pieces have not passed through our workshops.
Dimensions: Teapot: Length. : 30 cm - Base: 7 x 10 cm - Height: 13.5 cm
Coffee pot: Length: 16 cm - Base: 6.5 cm - Height: 21.5 cm
Creamer: Length: 9 cm - Base: 4.5 cm x 3.5 cm - Height 12 cm
Sugar bowl: 10 x 10 cm - Base: 5.5 cm - Height: 7 cm Tray: 49 x 30 cm - Height: 7 cm
Material: 1st title silver 940/1°°°
Weight: 3 Kg 606
Hallmark: ARGENTO 940/1000
Goldsmith: CHRISTOFLE
Origin: In the mid-1950s, Lino Sabattini opened a goldsmith workshop in Milan which quickly attracted the attention of Gio Ponti. The latter dedicated an article to him in Domus magazine and presented his works in 1956 in Paris in an exhibition devoted to Italian design. Sabatini then obtained international recognition and became design director for Christofle Orfèvrerie (which had bought Cardeilhac in 1951). He breathed a breath of fresh air into this house founded in 1830, by imagining cutlery, shaped pieces and candlesticks with modernist lines for the "Formes nouvelles" collection.
The Como model is most often made in silver-plated metal by Christofle for the Gallia collection. This silver edition by Christofle-Cardeilhac is therefore particularly rare. Provenance: - Acquired directly from Christofle on June 12, 1957. Bibliography: Bibliography: - Connaissance des Arts, May 1999, No. 561 p. 71 for an identical model in silver