When Hermès creative director for silk Bali Barret traveled to the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Conn., to study Josef's famous series Homage to the Square, she had a revelation. It made perfect sense that Hermès, a company so focused on squares albeit silk ones would publish a series of limited-edition scarves (or carrés, as they are known in France) inspired by Albers paintings. Along with Hermès artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Barret chose six Albers works and reproduced them using a challenging printing technique called edge to edge. Each 90-by-90-cm scarf is printed in an edition of 200 and numbered ($2,800).
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