HERMES 90cm SILK SCARF and 140cm CASHMERE SHAWL - LE LABORATOIRE DU TEMPS by PIERRE MARIE
Before COVID, the semi-annual sales in Paris were open to the public. I went to the January sale in 2015, meeting up with a delightful group from across the US and around the globe. I could rhapsodize about the experience forever but the reader's digest version is that this 2012 Pierre Marie scarf was one of the silks that came home with me. (The other keepers were a Clic Clac au Pois shawl and a couple of bangles.) This particular shade of green is hard to define but the colorists at Hermes (I've read they have a library of over 70,000 colors) did something right here. And color me surprised 7 years later to find the *exact* same colorway in the shawl format.
Similar to his l'Ombrelle Magique, Pierre Marie tells a story through a series of medallions - beginning with the Big Bang and moving through time in a non-chronological order from the dinosaurs to space travel. And like La Maison des Carres, ribbons encircle the entire scene. From the Hermes website:
Time travel certainly requires an exceptional lab, the secret hide-out of an amiable, mad genius. A host of small medallions tell the history of the world: the young Mozart practices at his harpsichord, while Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, close by. An astonishing journey from prehistory to Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the inauguration of the Eiffel Tower – not forgetting Émile Hermès in front of the store windows on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
Similar to his l'Ombrelle Magique, Pierre Marie tells a story through a series of medallions - beginning with the Big Bang and moving through time in a non-chronological order from the dinosaurs to space travel. And like La Maison des Carres, ribbons encircle the entire scene. From the Hermes website:
Time travel certainly requires an exceptional lab, the secret hide-out of an amiable, mad genius. A host of small medallions tell the history of the world: the young Mozart practices at his harpsichord, while Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, close by. An astonishing journey from prehistory to Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the inauguration of the Eiffel Tower – not forgetting Émile Hermès in front of the store windows on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
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