The exhibition takes viewers on a journey to explore the history of the house, which was founded in 1837 by Thierry Hermès, following the thread woven by generations of designers and craftspeople from its origins as a harness-maker and saddler to today’s contemporary designs.

The Rouges Hermès exhibition demonstrates that the house’s attachment to this colour through a spectrum of some 20 shades fluctuating from vermilion to magenta and from bright red to soft red. Ever since Émile Hermès, with the help of skilled artisan tanners, developed a process to dye box calf leather, red has been used to colour a…