Rendezvous with Hermès at Milan Design Week
Hermès presents its new collections for the home at Milan Design Week, from Wednesday April 9 to Sunday April 13.
La Pelota, via Palermo 10, Milan: Wednesday April 9, 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday April 10 to Saturday April 12, 10 am to 8 pm, Sunday April 13, 10 am to 6 pm
What makes the object?
For Milan Design Week 2025, Hermès is installing its new staging at La Pelota, designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman, architect and artistic director of Hermès collections for the home with Alexis Fabry. The new creations can be discovered in suspended boxes that are almost colourless in their whiteness, projecting halos of bright colours onto the floor.
It is through the immateriality of their aura that objects first appear, like emotions. This staging is a quest for the object, for the luminous vibration that makes it familiar.
Colour and transparency
Blowing glass, casing, layering and fusing it... This is an exploration of the different artisanal glassmaking techniques that have given life to the vases, jugs and boxes in this new collection of objects for the home. Colours and transparency vary according to the technique used, making each piece unique.
Pivot d'Hermès side table
This small table is the manifesto of a tightrope walker. Designer Tomás Alonso seeks balance, plays with ideas and materials, and combines paradoxes. Lacquered glass paints a rectilinear base whose colours come together like on a colour wheel. On the tabletop, a round box in sugi (Japanese cedar), its band curved using an ancient Japanese technique, moves on an eccentric axis and gives the table its unexpected movement.
Hermès en contrepoint dinner service
This thirty-three piece kaolin white porcelain table service is lined with friezes in soft or bright colours. The geometric motifs, hand-drawn and painted in watercolour by the artist Nigel Peake, bring us into the graphic universe of musical metre and its repeated fractions, inviting us to create a multitude of combinations.
Stories of fabrics
Whether graphic or geometric, the patterns on the new throws and blankets for the home are refined and intense. The pieces – some of them imposing in size – in light or dense cashmere, sometimes sprinkled with gold, are the result of exceptional know-how.