The world’s biggest ateliers are breaking free of convention to explain how fashion is an integral part of home design during the ongoing Milan Design Week. After Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades collection, celebrating the relaunch of the brand’s first-ever furniture piece, another Parisian maison, Hermès, is dazzling the home furnishings industry with its new Collections for the Home exhibit, centered on material dialogue, artisanal processes, and domestic narratives.
Through this immersive tactile showcase, the fashion house extends its home universe with hammered metal objects and textile pieces rooted in artisanal precision. The collection brings home objects in hammered palladium-finish metal with horsehair, a series of colorful textiles, and the Stadium d’Hermès table by Barber & Osgerby to a cohesive space, where each element exudes the warmth of a humble abode.
Exhibiting the power of slow, quiet luxury at the global stage, the hammered metal pieces become the unassuming centerpieces. Dubbed Palladion d’Hermès, the new line of home pieces comes in hammered metal combined with leather, horsehair, or wood, playing on this year’s theme of materiality.
The collection is inspired by the figure of Pallas Athena, and represents the pieces as contemporary protective objects. The atelier highlights the visual textures impacted by the hammer and the tension between the metal’s interplay of light and shadow.
Palladion d’Hermès features a hammered vase covered in black horsehair and calfskin, a jug with a contrasting cassia wood handle, and a leather-clad cylindrical vase, nodding to the brand’s equestrian heritage.
The series of luxuriously colorful textiles explores weaving, dyeing, embroidery, and construction. It postulates that textiles are not merely important to the fashion industry but are vital components of home interiors as well, and can be used as décor through their tactile design narratives.
The new Hermès Collections for the Home reinforces the atelier’s design ethos: its ability to translate its core values into adjacent categories without losing cadence. Meanwhile, the exhibit also signifies the importance of time-intensive crafts, elevated raw materials, and highly textural elements in home design.
Via: The Impression
