Pierres D’Orient Et D’Occident

Historias De Carres > Autumn-Winter 2011

In Renaissance Italy, the collectors and patrons the Medicis, so admired stone marquetry that they dedicated several workshops to it. Some artisans laboured for years on end to make a table top like the one that inspired this scarf. The passion for this art travelled abroad, particularly into England and France. A proliferation of flowers, butterflies and insects, pearl necklaces and ribbons in their sinuous curves. The delicacy of the line breathes life into plumage and petal, the plump berries issue an invitation… Life in all its fragile beauty runs through this mineral composition. Silk here takes the place of cut stones.

How To Wear Your Hermes Scarf

Inspired by the art of hard stone cutting that was so loved by the Medici family of the Italian Renaissance, this scarf re-creates the colorful landscapes and animal motifs that were often featured in stone inlay. The lapis lazuli effect bordering the scarf is unique among the more than 800 Hermes scarf patterns.