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First Dutch porcelain factory was founded in Weesp, near Amsterdam 1760: Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro: Madrid: Spain: Capodimonte porcelain was moved to Madrid. Popularly called La China. 1760: Kloster Veilsdorf porcelain factory: Veilsdorf: Germany: Thuringia 1761: Porzellanmanufaktur Kelsterbach: Kelsterbach: Germany: Hessen: 1762: Volkstedt ...
Dihl and Guérhard porcelain (various variant names) was made by the Duc d'Angoulême's porcelain factory, [1] a hard-paste porcelain factory in Paris, active from February 25, 1781, until 1828. It was founded by Christophe Dihl (1752-1830) and Antoine Guérhard (d.1793), together with Louise-Françoise-Madeleine Croizé (1751-1831), then ...
Duralex is a French tempered glass tableware and kitchenware manufacturer located in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin in Loiret, France. [3] Using a technique developed in the 1930s by Saint-Gobain , moulded glass is heated to 600 degrees Celsius then cooled very quickly, giving it twice the impact resistance of normal glass.
In 1756 the Vincennes factory was moved to Sèvres, where it still remains in production, and in 1759 it was bought by the king, although his mistress Madame de Pompadour was allowed effective free rein to oversee it. A period of superb quality in both design and production followed, creating much of the enduring reputation of French porcelain.
Antoine B. Beauvilliers (1754 – 31 January 1817) was a French restaurateur who opened the first grand restaurant in Paris [1] and wrote the cookbook L'Art du Cuisinier. [2] Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin considers him the most important of the early restaurateurs, as "he was the first to have an elegant dining room, handsome well-trained ...
René Lasserre created renowned dishes like the orange-flavoured duck of Challans, the André-Malraux pigeon, [3] truffle and foie gras macaroni, [4] and the Élysées-Lasserre timbale. Between 2001 and 2010, Lasserre' s cuisine was led by Jean-Louis Nomicos , the former chef of La Grande Cascade trained by Alain Ducasse .
Godiva was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by the Draps family, who opened their first shop in the Grand-Place under its present name in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva. [13] [14] The first shop outside Belgium was opened in Paris on the Rue Saint Honoré in 1958. In 1966, the company's products reached the United States, where they ...
As of 2012, the corporation had 350 employees [1] and as of 2015 holds 30 shops, most notably in London, Tokyo, Paris and Brussels. [11] In 2012, it generates 32 million Euros in revenue. [citation needed] The corporation has a manufacturing facility in Sablon, one of the most upmarket parts of Brussels.