Christofle's New Flagship Opens in New York After 25 years in cramped quarters on Madison Avenue, the French silver company Christofle has a new home several blocks north. Its 1,400-square-foot boutique is "a series of contradictions - intimate and open, soft and hard, light and dark," said its designer, Stéphane Parmentier, who worked for Lanvin, Karl Lagerfeld and Givenchy before founding his own firm in Paris more than a decade ago. It's also very, very shiny. Mr. Parmentier used an age-old trick to increase the apparent size of the interior: highly reflective surfaces. The ceiling is mirrored, giving the illusion of a double-height space and reflecting the flatware, holloware and jewelry from below. Islands and walls are clad in stainless steel; one wall is hung with silver trays. Three of the tray designs are exclusive to this New York flagship, including one showing a Charles Barsotti New Yorker cartoon, with a dog looking at a judge and the line "You can't plead cute with me." 846 Madison Avenue (70th Street), (212) 308-9390; christofle.com.