Mécanique du Temps by Loïc Dubigeon
Silk twill scarf, hand rolled, 36" x 36"
Les Jeux d'hermès
Dessin de Julie Abadie
This carré offers a graphic ‘play’ on the world of the Games themselves. The composition is based on the interplay of vivid colours and motifs honouring the sporting world’s four-yearly Olympic jamboree, cleverly combining two themes dear to the house’s heart, in a masterful blend of geometric forms, ribbons, palm fronds, and victory wings. The ensemble forms an understated, clear and clean design, incorporating running tracks, circuits and playing fields, those essential theatres of sport’s drive to excel and reach beyond each participant’s personal best. The design – like sport itself – is all about the satisfaction of achievement as a result of sustained effort, training and shared endeavour. Appropriately enough there are medals, too, commemorating precious moments of victory: inspired by ancient Greece, two of them depict horses – a feature of the very first Olympic games, around 800 BC – while the third shows Pegasus, the companion of the Muses and the winged mount of Zeus himself, King of Olympus.
Design by Aline Honoré
Hermès enjoys a long-standing connection with France’s naval museum, the musée national de la Marine. In 2010, the museum presented a marvellous collection of models made to order for an insatiable explorer and discoverer, Admiral Pâris. An engineer, painter and draughtsman, ethnologist and writer, Pâris sailed the oceans of the world, and became the museum’s curator in 1871. Aline Honoré’s design is a free interpretation of the extraordinary models – a tribute to the man himself, and to the exhibition for which this carré is named. In the world of boats, as with every other sphere, intellectual curiosity, necessity and invention are the order of the day. The silhouette of each craft is determined by the resources, currents and winds of its home port and region. An exceptional, diverse array of ships is surrounded by exuberant animals and luxuriant flora. In the centre, a Trabaccolo from the Adriatic is decked with checkerboard sails; above, a Muleta from the river Tagus is preceded by its multiple sails, like a flurry of kites; at the top right, a Chilean Balse des Intermedios consists of two airtight sacks made from of skins. The vessel has no sail, like the Chelingue, at the bottom of the design, and the Masula-Manché from Pondicherry, bristling with oars. Left of this, a little higher up, a Calcuttan Pansway supports a shelter on deck. Designed as river ferries, Pansways continued to be built until quite recently, using wood and natural fibres. To sail the seas, lakes and rivers of the planet is to discover our aquatic world, journeying to places and cultures as yet unknown.
Circuit 24 Faubourg by Benoît-Pierre Emery
With a visual trick displacing the boundaries between the abstract and figurative, this scarf presents an innovative interpretation at the house’s legendary 1938 emblem. Chic and contemporary, it is inspired by an anchor chain of a boat. Its lines are simple. Its feel is sporty. But striated like a frame surrounding them, these rings could recall automobile racing circuits. The design is pure and graphic, and the restraint of a form fulfilling its function is prominent. It is here that lies the modernity that defies time.
Silk twill scarf, hand rolled, 36" x 36"
Point d'Orgue by Pierre Marie
The fermata or Point d’Orgue suspends time, marking a silence or note whose scope and length expands into space and the listener. With its infinite breath the organ best creates this sensation. Its size and power are both extraordinary and its history ancient. Three centuries Before Christ, Ctesibius of Alexandria invented the hydraulis, the organ’s forbearer. The design takes liberties. Here pipes, bellows and keyboards burst in a fantastic bouquet. Drawing inspiration from engravings of a 18th century treaty L’Art du facteur d’orgues by Dom Bedos de Celles, beyond this sumptuous and mad composition Pierre Marie recalls the words of Lamartine “O time, suspend your flight…”
Printed silk twill scarf, hand rolled, 90x90cm / Silk twill scarf, hand rolled, 36" x 36"
$410.00
Tendresse Feline by Robert Dallet
Printed silk twill scarf, hand rolled, 90x90cm / Silk twill scarf, hand rolled, 36" x 36"
$410.00
