Eperon D’Or

Hermes Historias De Carres > Autumn-Winter 2010

At first glance, it’s a complex and harmonious interlacing, a cunning orchestrated composition of leather and metal, of rings and circles: a rose pattern set within the square of a carre. And then our eyes focus and make out each element, whose repetition gives rhythm to the movement, soothing as much as intriguing. Our fingers now itch to trace this mysterious network, without any beginning or ending. Spurs, stirrups, rein buckles and riding crops with three gold ferrules: the riding tack of the horsemen of the Cadre Noir of Saumur, that prestigious French riding school created in the nineteenth century, traces its bends and its straights.