Lightness is the recurring theme in Hermès home accessories featured at the Milan Design Week 2022. Inspirations for shapes and colours are drawn from unexpected sources. This includes the shape of water towers that are made light despite their proportions and wood covered with translucent coloured paper to radiate light.
Creators at Hermès turn the spotlight on textiles with five creations forming this fabric for lightness platform. For this, cashmere is the fabric of choice as it forms the design of ethereal plaids; squares woven and dyed by hand to make a great patchwork of shimmering colours; geometric shapes assembled using a linking technique to evoke stained-glass windows; a large, quilted bed cover that brings colours, patchwork and traditional quilting technique into dialogue.
Objects, porcelain and furniture are cut and folded into leather sheets with hand-painted decoration. Decorative centrepieces and porcelain plates reflect sunlight while a canework seat displays delicacy as it does strength. The lightness of lines produces timeless style, as these creations demonstrate.
Coulisse
T-shaped table lamp
Hand-painted parachute fabric, bamboo frame, and binding circle in copper-plated steel. LED light with dimmer.
L 39 × w 29 × h 37 cm
Creation: Tomás Alonso
Surface
Bed Cover
100% cashmere, quilted and patchworked
220 × 240 cm
Design: Gianpaolo Pagni
Soleil D’Hermès
Porcelain service
Dessert Plate Ø 21
Design: Arielle de Brichambaut
Pli’H
Centrepiece
Bridle leather sheet is sewn and painted by hand
Ø 36 × h 4 cm
Creation: Hermès Studio
Oseraie Color
Basket
Wicker and cord in terre battue Swift calfskin woven by hand, Swift calfskin handles
L 34 × w 28 × h 13 cm
Creation: Hermès Studio
Karumi
Stool
Bamboo and removable pad
in H bullcalf
L 37.9 × w 37.9 × h 40.7 cm
Creation: Alvaro Siza
H Tissage
Plaid
100% cashmere
Hand-woven and hand-dyed
cashmere appliqué
150 × 220 cm
Design: Fanette Mellier
H Tartan
Plaid
100% cashmere
Hand-woven and hand-dyed cashmere appliqué
150 × 220 cm
Creation: Hermès Studio
H Pythagore
Plaid
100% cashmere, spun, woven and dyed by hand, patchwork stitching
168 × 210 cm
Creation: Hermès Studio
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