Candidate catalogue entry
Index Bromeliaceae
Title: Candidate · not independently reviewedKatie Scott
Artist credit: Candidate · not independently reviewed
The inherited pilot metadata remains provisional. The separately reviewed note below does not promote the catalogue record or establish a first-edition year.
Brief creation story
The story, in brief
This note has its own sources and limits. The inherited catalogue metadata elsewhere on this page remains provisional.
Katie Scott’s Index Bromeliaceae gives a plant family the attention usually reserved for a whole imagined landscape. Hermès describes eight bromeliad species in the composition and relates Scott’s approach to nineteenth-century natural-history illustration. The title’s suggestion of an index is therefore a useful invitation: look for differences, compare forms and allow a familiar decorative subject to become more particular.[1]
The house’s account distinguishes plants that grow on other plants from those rooted in the ground, using pineapple as an example of the latter. It places the family in tropical and subtropical America. These are the botanical distinctions supplied with the scarf, rather than species identifications made from an image here.[1]
The documented scarf 90 is a hand-rolled silk-twill version credited directly to Scott. Its appeal can be understood as a change of pace: not a sweeping panorama, but a small invitation to pay closer attention. A plant need not be familiar to become memorable.[1]
First-edition year: not established by these sources.
Sources and limits of this note
- Index Bromeliaceae scarf 90 · HermèsProduct description lines 31–41; The Story behind lines 69–71; reference H003801S 03 · The Story behind, lines 69–71 · The Story behind, lines 70–71 · Product description, lines 31–41
Evidence details and uncertainties
- artist · supported
- Katie ScottdesignIndex Bromeliaceae scarf 90, Product description lines 31–41; The Story behind lines 69–71; reference H003801S 03
- described subject · supported
- Eight bromeliad species; natural-history illustration referencedesignIndex Bromeliaceae scarf 90, The Story behind, lines 69–71
- source botanical context · supported
- Epiphytic and terrestrial forms; pineapple example; tropical/subtropical AmericadesignIndex Bromeliaceae scarf 90, The Story behind, lines 70–71
- documented version · supported
- H003801S 03: scarf 90; silk twill; hand-rolledproduct:H003801S 03Index Bromeliaceae scarf 90, Product description, lines 31–41
- first edition year · unknown
- Unknownexisting_entity
What is documented
- Title
- Index Bromeliaceae Candidate · not independently reviewed
- Artist credit
- Katie Scott Candidate · not independently reviewed
- First edition
- Unknown Unknown
Reviewed product variants
No product variant is established in the reviewed sample for this entry.
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Katie Scott Candidate · not independently reviewed association
Documentary context
Kew’s botanical account confirms that bromeliads include both ground-growing and epiphytic plants, with habitats ranging from cloud forest to desert.
No identification of the eight depicted species, current species total, or claim that all bromeliads are exclusively American.
- Bromeliaceae Juss., General information · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Descriptions: Flora of the Cayman Islands (2012), lines 56–60; Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook (2020), lines 72–98, especially Distribution and Ecology
This narrowly scoped reference does not establish an independent history of this design or its first edition. Historical evidence and visual credits remain separate.