Light, born of line: Hermès jewelry is a jewelry of form. It is form that sculpts the material, that reveals radiance, that illuminates the precious stone. A jewelry tradition reinvented to serve creativity.
Lignes sensibles is a true manifesto presented by Pierre Hardy, Creative Director of Hermès jewelry, with gracious radicality. This very contemporary and incredibly free-spirited collection goes as far as inventing a second skin. Circuits, drop stones and intricate geometric forms evoke organic cartography and compose a sensual world in which the body is exalted.
“In my previous collections, the link with the body was achieved through metaphors, such as the chain. Here it is direct: the jewelry is closer than ever to the body itself. I wanted to return to this symbiosis: to be at one with the skin.”
Pierre Hardy
Creative Director of Hermès jewelry
Contre la peau necklace
Rose gold – diamonds
The lines of the collection are reminiscent of the multiple connections that flow around the body, like feint sketches on the skin.
“I see these lines as radiating out from them. I like the idea that you can choose a different anatomy, reinvent an intimate sensory system, like a wave that is made visible and given form by jewelry.”
Pierre Hardy
Hermès Réseau lumière necklace
White gold – sapphires
Lignes sensibles highlight stones in watercolour shades, emphasised by the softness of rose gold. Shades specific to the complexion, the lips, or the iris. The palette that emerges from this collection is natural, discreet and unique, featuring blue, pink or brown tourmalines, green-yellow prehnites, sapphires in shades of green-blue, yellow-orange or pastel pink, and brown diamonds.
À l’écoute ring
Rose gold – diamonds – prehnite
To stay true to Pierre Hardy’s design, one of the challenges of the À l’écoute necklace was to create an object that offered both hold and flexibility. A long and complex research process drawing on all the know-how of the workshops was needed to ensure that each curve and each articulation contributed to creating perfect balance. The gemcutters even carved the centre stones in situ, which is rare and delicate work, but essential for the stability of the piece. Three hundred hours of jewelry-making, setting and polishing work were required to bring this necklace to life.
