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Harcourt pattern crystal glasses and silk-scarf board
Champagne for a Baccarat Birthday
July 27, 2011
To celebrate the 170th birthday of Baccarat’s superstar Harcourt crystal pattern, designer Philippe Starck and his artist daughter Ara collaborated on a champagne tribute. Instead of a board, their game of jeu de dames, or checkers, is played on Ara’s painted silk scarf with Harcourt champagne flutes as pieces—with clear playing against Starck’s signature black.
The numbered but unlimited edition has four flutes and a scarf; the limited edition comes with six clear and six black signed flutes with a signed silk square. Sounds like fun, especially if the glasses are kept filled.
Baccarat, 11 pl de la Madeleine, Paris 8th, website
Originally published in the April 2011 issue of France Today
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