INTO THE HORSESCAPE: HERMÈS TURNS MOVEMENT INTO HIGH JEWELRY
Hermès has unveiled Into the Horsescape, the ninth haute bijouterie collection of the maison, and it might be Pierre Hardy’s most poetic work yet. Ninety creations explore the essence of movement: jewels that lift away from the skin only to return to it, again and again.
Attelage d’Or Choker
The horse, the founding symbol of Hermès, is everywhere and nowhere at once. Pierre Hardy, Creative Director of Hermès Jewelry, calls the collection metonymical. The animal itself is barely visible, yet its symbolism lives in every piece, sometimes concrete, sometimes sliding into metaphor. A fitting approach for a house that began in 1837 as a harness and saddle maker for Europe’s equestrian elite, long before it became the luxury powerhouse we know today.
Cavale Necklace
«INTO THE HORSESCAPE is a metonymical collection. The horse itself is barely seen, but its symbolism lives within each piece, sometimes even taking on a metaphorical quality.» – Pierre Hardy, Creative Director of Hermès Jewelry
Chevauchée Necklace
The collection unfolds like an inner landscape, woven from myths, legends, inherited gestures and contemporary visions. Some of the lines speak the equestrian language more clearly than others.
Centaure Necklace
Centaure takes the horse’s hoof as its starting point, pairing meticulously cut black jade with invisible-set baguette diamonds.
Galop Hermès Double Ring
Galop Hermès brings the animal into full view with sculptural horse profiles, exceptional sapphires and gradients of white and brown diamonds that echo the tones of a horse’s coat.
Clou de Forge Lumière
Clou de Forge Lumière elevates the humble blacksmith’s nail into one of the collection’s brightest pieces, covered in diamonds through the house’s pavage matière technique.
Fouet Double Tour Bracelet
And Fouet Double Tour reinterprets the equestrian whip in supple gold and diamonds, a tribute to Hardy’s very first haute bijouterie collection from 2010.
Etreintes Cuff Bracelet and Earrings
What I love most about Into the Horsescape is its restraint. Some stones stay partially hidden until the jewel moves with the wearer, revealing themselves slowly instead of demanding attention. The horse remains the starting point, never the destination. Quiet luxury in its most literal form, and unmistakably Hermès.
LoL, Sandra
Etriers Necklace
Lasso Disco Necklace
Sellette Bracelet
Hermès Apparat Ring and Body Jewelry
Photos: Courtesy of Hermès
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