SIMPLE SPLENDOR: TABLE MANNERS A LA VIEILLE RUSSIE.

The article reports on the firm A La Vieille Russie (ALVR). For more than 150 years, since it was originally founded in Kiev, Ukraine, and through its successive rebirths in Saint Petersburg, Paris and New York, the firm has catered to a refined clientele. Across the street from the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue, the ALVR is the premier source for outstanding examples of jewelry, tabletop, furniture and fine art originally commissioned by the ruling class of tsarist Russia. The ALVR has not only catered to Russian aristocracy but has attracted an international clientele including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Serge Diaghilev, Salvador Dali and Gustav Nobel.