• Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.
  • Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.

    Silver shell box with spoon, Deschamps Frères, France, 1930s.

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    The ocean has a way of designing without trying.
    A shell is not decoration — it’s an archive of movement, a map of how life negotiates with water and pressure. What if this negotiation could exist on a table, in the hand, as part of a daily gesture?

    The silver box and its small spoon are not copies of a shell, but a conversation with it. They carry the same ridges, the same sense of protection, the same intimacy of scale. In their time, they belonged to a culture that celebrated translation — from nature into object, from raw material into ritual.

    Now, they belong to a different question: how do we live with the ocean in the room? How can an object hold both beauty and the responsibility of remembering where its form comes from? This is not nostalgia. It’s a reminder that design is never neutral — it is a way of telling the sea’s story, again and again, until we learn to listen.

     

    OBJECT SPECIFICATIONS

    PRODUCT: Silver shell box with spoon
    MANUFACTURER: Deschamps Frères (Deschamps Frères stamp)
    ORIGIN: Paris, France
    PERIOD: 1930s–1950s
    MATERIAL: Silver-plated
    COLOR: Silver
    TEXTURE: smooth reflective - polished with scallop ridges
    CONDITION: Excellent condition, minor wear consistent with use and age
    DIMENSIONS: (+-)
    Shell box: Width: 16 cm; Depth: 11 cm; Height: 5.5 cm; 
    Spoon: Length: 12.5 cm

     
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