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Lien d'Hermès

Staying close to its equestrian heritage, Lien d’Hermès is an exercise bridging utility with beauty, where the tough narrow strips of leather, usually used to equip the horse, have been employed in homeware. Designed in collaboration with Guillaume Delvigne and Studio Hermès, Lien d’Hermès represents the best in savoir-faire of the Hermès leather ateliers. Lien d’Hermès was launched at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2017

Year : 2017  /  ©hermes

Shiseido

The perfume bottle for Shiseido's luxury cosmetic brand, Clé de Peau, was designed to harmonise with its exisiting Synactif range of skincare. The Rose Synactif perfume is based on a gold medal-winning rose from the famed Delbard nursery. The design captures and reveals the lilac rose petal in the transparent capsule...an olfactory moment frozen in time.

Designed in collaboration with Benoit-Pierre Emery and Mao Komai

Year:  2012

Equilibre d'Hermès

Designed in collaboration with Gregoire de la Forret, Guillaume Delvigne and the in-house design team of Hermès, Equilibre d’Hermès represents the best in savoir-faire of the Hermès leather ateliers. Equilibre d’Hermès was launched at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2016 and was later premiered in New York in a choreographed show by the acclaimed avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson.

Year : 2016  /  ©hermes

Philips/Alessi

The desire to redress the balance between acoustics and aesthetics was at the heart of this project. Why should a speaker always be housed in a black wooden box? Two porcelain speakers and a CD player in a noble material, porcelain, and hi-fidelity would never be the same again. Using the know-how of both companies to creatively collaborate and literally propose out-of-the-box designs in this noble material resulted in a surprising series of very domestic designs.

Year : 1999

Rallye 24

This range of tableware takes its queue from the enigmatic heyday of 1930's car-racing. As a result the designs are modern and bold, expressing the irreverent optimism of the era. The plates are round and oval and have the same banked flanks as the old race tracks of yore. The colours are those of the countries' racing stables: british racing green, ferrari red, german silver and the (royal) french blue.

Designed in collaboration with Benoit-Pierre Emery

Year: 2013  /  ©hermes

 

Thames Water

Winner of a competition to utilise an 18m high surge pipe on Holland Park roundabout in London. This barometer reintroduces a form of low-key civic communication and harks back to the days before these ‘instruments’ were replaced by digital media. The enigmatic design purposefully disguises its subtle message so as to strengthen its presence.

Year : 1993

 

Philips

A media player that uses all the available technologies to make for the most unobtrusive home device : storing, sharing and playing music, photos and films in the most uncluttered cable-free solution. The design of the player is airy, light and enigmatic. A touch of magic.

Year: 2005

Hermès

Stanley, is the perfect travel companion for your Hermès ties, neatly securing three ties in a leather upholstered plywood frame. The taut tensile-structure ensures the necessary rigidity to protect the ties from creasing.

Year : 1993

Royal Delft

The desire to inject a new lease of life into the age-old Delftware manufactory through design, lay at the heart of this project. Delftware at the crossroads between contemporary tableware and cultural relevqnce/significance, straddling beauty, form and avoiding the cliché. Delftware brought back into the 21st century, no mean feat.

Year : 2011

Carnets d'Équateur

Contributing to this iconic range of signature Robert Dallet tableware for Hermès, lay in the form designs of some of the key elements, including the teapot, soup terrine, creamer, cups and vase.

Designed in collaboration with Benoit-Pierre Emery

Year : 2014  /  ©hermes

Voyage en Ikat

An Hermès dinner service at the crossroads between East and West, between the age old Ikat textiles emanating from the Orient and the French traditional fine dining porcelain. The collection expresses itself through more than twenty hues centred on three different colours – emerald, sapphire and ruby and is crowned with 24-carat matte gold accented elements.

Designed in collaboration with Benoit-Pierre Emery

Year : 2014  /  ©hermes

Onstream

This back-up device was the state of the art in digital magnetic storage in its day. The expression in a simple yet bold design clearly exemplifies its sense of self-assuredness.

Year : 1999

Ritmedic

The hand-held Scenar is a breakthrough non-invasive technology that allows patients to recover up to 70% faster by stimulating the human body to use its internal healing resources to speed up recovery from chronic pains and injuries. Such revolutionary technology deserved revolutionary design and that’s what we delivered.

Year : 2011

Solar Lampion

The Solar Lampion is a self-initiated project and one of the first of its kind to create a mobile and aesthetically pleasing lamp using solar cells. The lampion is composed of an exoskeleton that holds 30 solar cells in place on the outside and the light on the inside. The Solar Lampion has been awarded a Red Dot concept award and been exhibited worldwide at the MoMA (USA), Espace Electra (F), V&A (UK) and the Boijmans van Beuningen (NL).

Year: 2007

Odyssée

The Odyssée vase for Hermès represents the chaine-d’ancre as a three dimensional extrusion. Made in terra-cotta and topped off with luscious colours and a silver trimming, lucky flowers!

Designed in collaboration with Benoit-Pierre Emery

Year : 2012  /  ©hermes

Lien d'Hermès

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Shiseido

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Equilibre d'Hermès

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Philips/Alessi

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Rallye 24

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Thames Water

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Philips

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Hermès

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Royal Delft

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Carnets d'Équateur

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Voyage en Ikat

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Onstream

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Ritmedic

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Solar Lampion

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Odyssée

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