Milan, Italy
Designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman, Hermès Creative Director, the fashion brand transformed an (indoor) pelota court into a world of its own at Milan Design Week.
Inside this small village, Perelman arranged objects and fabrics for a home of pure refinement.
Five house-like structures, which contained the Hermès 2021-2022 home collection of richly tactile furniture, textile, and porcelain—in response, according to Hermès, to people’s lives that are “seemingly more and more abstract, more remote.”
One for all: the Sillage armchair designed by Bijoy Jain from Studio Mumbai in wood clad with papier-mâché, “tattooed” with fine lines like a tribal totem.
The brand’s ‘silk table centerpieces, crafted from copper foil and colored with stenciled enamels, present a real technical achievement.
Several applications and firings are needed to create these unique pieces, which express a rich array of textures and contrasts after firing in a subtle balance between fused pigments and the rawness of the materials.
Also, the oak Équilibre armchair by Jasper Morrison for Hermès has a removable leather seat pad. Other items featured include leather and wicker baskets, hand-woven plaids, and lacquered hand-painted boxes.
The new collections embrace the simplicity of an elegance that gives way to refinement and comfort.
The objects are designed as connections between materials, ranging from paper microfibres to white cashmere felt and chiseled stone.
The artisan’s meticulous designs and the magic of fire-based arts constantly evoke the hand that has shaped them to experience.
The designs and the magic of fire-based arts constantly evoke the hand that has shaped them to experience.
Project: Hermès at Milan Design Week
Designers: Charlotte Macaux Perelman
Manufacture: Hermès
Photographers: Maxime Verret
