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Ex-libris
Ex-libris connects a personal mark of ownership with a design for silk. Hermès identifies Hugo Grygkar as the author of the carré and dates its composition…
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Documentary research
Research stories on Hermès silk designs, each with its sources and its limits. Shorter notes are listed here while their research continues.
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Au fil de la soie
Gallery 63’s catalogue interprets Au fil de la soie as a sequence about the silk trade. In its description of a silk example, the small scenes connect trav…
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Guépards
In Hermès’ account of Guépards, speed and watchfulness share the scene. Some cheetahs run or hunt across the plain, while others shelter their young at the…
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Into the canadian wild
Into the Canadian Wild has an unusually clear launch context. On 31 May 2017, Hermès Canada announced a limited-edition silk-twill square celebrating Canad…
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Jaguar quetzal
Jaguar quetzal is securely connected to Alice Shirley by a Hermès press release about the reopening of its Lyon store. Dated 25 February 2021, the announce…
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Panthera pardus
Panthera pardus links Robert Dallet’s animal imagery with a publicly documented conservation initiative. His website reports a 2016 first collection appear…
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Tyger tyger
Tyger tyger brings together poetry, animal drawing and botanical research. Hermès identifies William Blake’s poem as a source for Alice Shirley’s design an…
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Merveilleuses lanternes
For Merveilleuses lanternes, Hermès locates the starting point in its own collection of objects. According to the maison, Pierre Marie noticed a recently r…
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Les nouveaux amoureux de paris
Les nouveaux amoureux de Paris has an expressly documented relationship to an older design. Hermès identifies Maurice Tranchant’s original as a 1951 map of…