Jeu Des Omnibus Remix

Histoires de Carres > Spring - Summer 2018

The Italian artist Gianpaolo Pagni loves to appropriate old documents, reinventing their appearance and story in a light-heareted way through the use of stamps. He took great pleasure with this exercise using Jeu des omnibus et dames blanches as his basis. Originally intended as a board game, this watercolour holds a special lace in the history of Hermes. Hung on the office wall of Emile Hermes, the grandson of the house's founder, and today conserved in his collection, in 1937 it inspired the very first Hermes silk scarf. What was the origin of this game? he new omnibus lines, which appeared in the 1820s, and whose horse-drawn vehicles encircle the central medallion. The players placed their bets, then wooden balls were selected from a bag to reveal the winning number.