The house · 1962
A family table
Christhellas has kept the French table in Athens since Mary Pesketzi brought Christofle to Greece.
The company belongs to the family of Michael Vottas. In 1962 Mary Pesketzi opened Pavillon Christofle in Athens and taught the city to trust the silver.
Her daughter, Leoni Nissioti-Votta, made the house the country’s table: Christofle, then Bernardaud and Saint-Louis, chosen for rooms that already knew how to receive.
Today four houses — Kolonaki, Glyfada, Kifissia, Thessaloniki — remain rooms you enter to hold a piece, write a list, or have a name cut into silver.