The new Haute Bijouterie collection, Into the Horsescape, is designed by Creative Director of Pierre Hardy for Hermès Jewellery.

At its core, the collection is built on absence as much as presence. The horse long a defining symbol of Hermès is never depicted literally. Instead, it is translated into rhythm, tension, and structure. It exists as a force within the jewellery, shaping each piece without ever appearing as image. The result is a body of work where symbolism replaces representation, and suggestion becomes the most precise form of expression.

Everything begins with a line. A quiet, almost imperceptible tension that runs across the skin like a breath. From this initial gesture, each jewel takes form, not as ornament, but as structure in motion. Lines stretch, tighten, and release, defining space before they define beauty. In this logic, jewellery is not applied to the body; it is activated by it.

The equestrian vocabulary is present but abstracted into fragments. The curve of a horse bit becomes a sculptural setting for a vivid emerald. The circular motion of a lasso is reinterpreted in baguette-cut diamonds. The disciplined geometry of a stirrup and the raw strength of a blacksmith’s nail are transformed into pavé-set forms, were craftsmanship dissolves function into pure sensation. These elements do not describe the horse; they carry its memory.

Forms evolve from bold structures into refined silhouettes, revealing stones of rare scale and intensity. Jewels are set in motion: they encircle, then release. They constrain, then liberate. Like the horse itself, they are both support and passage, anchoring and guiding at once.

Colour plays a silent but powerful role in this narrative. Deep blacks of jade and Tahitian stone evoke the density and sheen of hooves. Rose gold paired with brown diamonds suggests the warmth and living texture of a horse’s coat. White and rose gold pavé constructions erase contrast entirely, transforming metal into continuous light. Here, material becomes atmosphere rather than surface.

The ninety pieces of Into the Horsescape form a sensory landscape, an inner territory shaped by myth, memory, and contemporary vision. It is not a journey with a beginning or end, but an unfolding horizon where each jewel becomes a pause in time, a suspended breath defined by precision and restraint.

In this vision, preciosity is not excess but essence. It is a slow, deliberate act of shaping that ultimately yields to movement. Materials cease to be static objects and instead become responsive forms, alive to the body, to light, and to space.

In Into the Horsescape, jewellery no longer represents the horse. It inherits its energy. And in doing so, it transforms into something more elusive and enduring: the echo of movement made tangible.