PURE IMAGINATION
Look this way, and there is a wall of tiny boxes holding every kind of delicate trinket and piece of silver imaginable. In one box are palladium padlocks, in another precious keys, and you’d likely discover a very familiar ‘H’, too. In the next room is a technicolour pile of sumptuous leather of chèvre de coromandel or goat leather in a zingy shade of chartreuse, clemence (a kind of grained bull leather) in deep merlot atop exotics like niloticus (crocodile), and buttery pebbled Togo leather in ballerina pink or dove grey, the kind that regularly finds its way onto Birkin bags.
We are looking at the Paris workshop of Hermès’s petit h, a project begun by Pascale Mussard, great-great-great-granddaughter of Thierry Hermès, where they are working on a
