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Les Folies du Faubourg

Title: Candidate · not independently reviewed

Elias Kafouros

Artist credit: Candidate · not independently reviewed
AI-generated contextual illustration: a wooden model train carrying plain fabric rolls curves past an imagined pale workshop and a reflective garden pond.
AI-generated contextual illustration, the makers take a journey. An original scene, not an archive, an exact Hermès object or a documented artist’s work or setting.AI-generated editorial illustration for MyQuotaBag Heritage, 2026. Generated contextual asset, not a historical source or licensed archive. No Creative Commons license assigned. Preserve the explicit AI-generated illustration caption beside the image.

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.

A train carries the people who make silk pictures into a picture of their own. In Les Folies du Faubourg, Elias Kafouros imagines Hermès engravers, printers and colorists travelling around a lake while the Faubourg building spreads into a fantastical landscape. The house’s account describes carriages taking the forms of a coach, a horse and a racing car, with mountains, balloons and watching elves extending the adventure beyond the railway.[1]

The pleasure of this little world lies in its change of viewpoint. The makers become passengers, while architecture and transport join the entertainment. Read this way, the design offers a playful salute to the people behind an image, without turning their work into a solemn monument.

One documented silk version is reference H004147S 08, listed by Hermès Singapore in Jaune Vif / Rouge / Marron. That particular carré 90 is French-made silk twill with hand-rolled edges, measuring approximately 88.5 by 88.5 centimeters. These details identify the recorded version, rather than every expression of the design.[1]

First-edition year: not established by these sources.

Sources and limits of this note

  1. Les Folies du Faubourg scarf 90 · HermèsHeading / product title · Designed by / Dessiné par field · The Story behind, line 80 · Product information lines 26–44
Evidence details and uncertainties
title · supported
Les Folies du Faubourgoriginal_designLes Folies du Faubourg scarf 90, Heading / product title
artist · supported
Elias Kafourosoriginal_designLes Folies du Faubourg scarf 90, Designed by / Dessiné par field
first edition year · unknown
Unknownoriginal_design
scene · supported
Faubourg building expands into a fantasy landscape.manufacturer_narrative_about_designLes Folies du Faubourg scarf 90, The Story behind, line 80
figures · supported
Hermès engravers, printers and colorists travel by train around a lake.original_designLes Folies du Faubourg scarf 90, The Story behind, line 80
motifs · supported
Carriage, horse, racing car, valleys, mountains, balloons and elves.original_designLes Folies du Faubourg scarf 90, The Story behind, line 80
documented variant · supported
{"reference": "H004147S 08", "format": "scarf 90", "composition": "100% silk twill", "finish": "hand-rolled edges", "made_in": "France", "dimensions_cm": [88.5, 88.5], "dimensions_approximate": true, "colorway": "Jaune Vif / Rouge / Marron"}variant:H004147S 08Les Folies du Faubourg scarf 90, Product information lines 26–44

What is documented

Title
Les Folies du Faubourg Candidate · not independently reviewed
Artist credit
Elias Kafouros Candidate · not independently reviewed
First edition
Unknown Unknown

Reviewed product variants

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