Hermès, La beauté en voyage, Editions Cercle d’Art (book)

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Hermès, La beauté en voyage / Hermès, Beauty on the road (book) by Maryline Desbiolles and Michèle Gazier. Photographer Guy Lucas de Peslouan. Editions Cercle d’Art. 2004. Hardcover book with dust jacket of 194 pages. French texts. The book itself is in excellent condition, the dust jacket is slightly rubbed and has a cut on the spine. The endpaper is creased. (See photos).

From the end of the 19th century, Emile Hermès, founder of the famous Maison Hermès, built up an invaluable collection of travel objects … Exceptional luxury edition dedicated to the Maison Hermès. This book presents a selection of antique objects from the Emile Hermès collection as well as items selected for their beauty, old and contemporary, made in the Hermès workshops. Thanks to the detailed descriptions, the reader will be able to familiarize himself with the vocabulary appropriate to saddlery and leather goods.

By collecting the most beautiful travel objects during his travels from the end of the 19th century, Émile Hermès wanted to create an exceptional collection that he would place, like so many artistic references, before the eyes of the artisan workers in the workshops.

This constant relationship with the art of the object, the art of gesture, the art of making has reinforced and always nourished the Hermès spirit.

For the first time, we can admire here an anthology of these rare pieces chosen for their link to the theme of the book. It seemed interesting, even essential, to show the relationship to these works of art of a selection of the most beautiful creations by Hermès, including contemporary objects selected for their beauty and the perfection of their creation. All the photographs are unpublished, created especially by Guy Lucas de Peslouan, a still life specialist.

Thanks to his viewing angles and his lighting, he was able to give these objects back the aura of works of art that their creators had originally given them.

In the introduction, Jérôme Guerrand-Hermès tells us about his grandfather, Émile Hermès, who introduced him to beauty and travel in his office in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré. He describes the traveler of yesterday and today.

In her text Cheval Ailé ​​avec mors, Maryline Desbiolles “questions words, the common noun voyage. Its design is sinuous, it comes from viaticum, that which is used to make the road”. Michèle Gazier invites us on a walk in the land of objects. She enlightens us on their history, their meaning, their magic.

For her, for us, these inanimate objects have a soul.

Feel free to check out the additional photos at the top left, thank you!

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