Window display is a special world that was originally created to attract the public to the stores, but at some point, it outgrew its utilitarian task and became really hypnotising, mysterious, funny sometimes mystical, calling us to look beyond the glass.
The real art installations, with unique elements are the Hermès showcases.
The history of the creation of their creation begins at the end of the 20th century and continues to this day.
Almost 100 years, each season, these art objects succeed each other. No element is repeated in the following scenery and none of theese items is not commercially available.
Only three art directors stand behind this splendor.
Annie Beaumel (years of work 1927-1978) began her career in Hermès as a designer of gloves, gradually transforming into one of the greatest storefront designers.
Her work is surreal and philosophical. It was amazing songs that the grateful audience called “drama in the street.”
She felt like Hermès had become her family. This year, an exhibition dedicated to her work has opened. There are the grandiose re-created eight of its installations of different years, eight worlds of an amazing designer.
The third art director, Antoine Platteau, before his working in Hermes was a theater artist. His style of work is close to his predecessor. Showcases for him are three-dimensional pictures, in which the main thing is not the objects themselves, but the ideas behind them.
The invented world of Hermes showcases is fascinating. It’s like dreams or those fairy-tale images that we paint ourselves in childhood. Fantasies carried out by designers with complete freedom, oriental splendor, absolutely surreal installations or calling perspectives of geometric figures cause in us an acute desire to look beyond reality and magic.
