Puzzle II

Histoires De Carres > Automne - Hiver 2009

A groom in front of a harnessed "duc": inspired by a drawing of Alfred de Dreux, belonging to the Emile Hermes collection, this is the house logo of 24, Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris. Easily identifiable, the groom, the horse and the "duc" (a carriage drawn by two horses) are here to cut up into pieces, mixed and rearranged, like the pieces of a playful and stylised jigsaw. With a nod to "Der Rosenkavalier", the comic opera by Richard Strauss, which sees a young and handsome horseman encounter love with a silver flower, the designer has added the scattered fragments of a rose.

H Carre Hermes Paris > Spring - Summer 2000

Puzzle (II)

Immtability is reassuring, true, but at the same time so annoying! Hence the joy of sticking moustaches on the Mona Lisa. The civilised soul is bursting with sacrilegious impulses. Keeping a sense of proportion - for this is not quite sacred defilement - there is a real pleasure in seeing a famous insignia turned inside out. Today it's the turn of Hermes' "Duke and Carriage" to be the willing victim; it has been iconoclasticaly taken apart, under the tutelage of the Rosenkavalier.