Hermès launches furniture 1924



new line of furniture Maison Hermès will consist of items invented by the famous French designer Jean-Michel Frank in the distant 1924. His ideas, in spite of its age, was in tune with contemporary fashion. Hermès Maison will be available in April. Among the furniture Frank chair straw screen, covered with shagreen leather table, a designer dining table with X-shaped legs. Before the appearance of lines Maison, the only piece of furniture, which produced Hermès, he was folding chair Pippa. It was invented in 1987 by designer Rena Dumas, the wife of the then head of the fashion house Jean-Louis Dumas. In 2009, Hermès has reissued the classic chair.