At Milan Design Week 2026, artistic directors, Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry present a journey where full and empty spaces interact, inviting the visitor to wander and, with every step, discover objects from the new Hermès collection.
The presentation features a set of thirty rectangular columns in varying heights, crafted in wood and arranged to create structured aisles and shifting perspectives. This alignment of features creates a repetition effect that evokes the artisan’s repeated gesture. The meeting of two architectural materials echoes the creation of these new objects that blend textures, contrasts, colours and motifs.

The material speaks, the object tells a story:
Within the space, a traveller moves through a landscape of form and material. His journey unfolds through lines, perspectives, and structures, plaster and beechwood arranged into simple parallelepipeds, each adorned with objects that are aligned, measured, and oriented toward the cardinal points. Together, they suggest the foundations of inhabiting space.
From these elements, a city begins to emerge, an abstract dwelling shaped through colour and composition.

A light throw in cashmere and linen introduces the scene, its patchwork of blues, reds, greens, and ochres stitched together to form subtle initials, marking the beginning of the home.

Nearby, objects take form. A table centrepiece stands apart, defined by its sculptural presence and refined detailing.


Alongside it, a jug and a series of vases in hammered metal catch the light, their surfaces edged with tones of black and purple and layered with geometric shapes in fawn, aubergine, blue, and green.

Some pieces are wrapped in textured horsehair, while others are finished with cassia wood handles, each reflecting Hermès’ signature approach to materiality and craftsmanship.


Rectangular forms echo the rhythm of piano keys across leather marquetry boxes. Colour moves across them in shifting compositions, bright orange emerging boldly on one, softening into black on another, before returning as vermilion in small, confetti-like accents stitched onto leather baskets.

Textiles continue the narrative. Cashmere fabrics reveal interplays of colour and light through resist-dye techniques and embroidery, forming patterns of chequerboards and discs that create depth and perspective.

A chevron weave, light and fluid, is trimmed with fine ribbed detailing in carmine and saffron, moving gently with the air.

Together, these elements form more than a display, they create a language of living. Through structure, material, and colour, Hermès translates its vision of the home into a spatial experience that is both precise and poetic.
At Milan Design Week 2026, the installation moves beyond objects, offering instead a quiet reflection on how space is imagined, composed, and ultimately inhabited.