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OverviewFor the better part of the last two centuries, the name Herm s has been synonymous with the world's highest quality luxury goods--from the Paris company's original saddlery items of the 1800s to its famous silk scarves of the 1930s, to today's celebrity-endorsed Birkin bags. At present, the company operates workshops specializing in 16 distinct crafts--each employing experts of the highest order, from saddlers to tailors, perfumers, jewelers, hatmakers, cobblers, watchmakers and designers of printed silk or home decor. Within each craft, specific skills are broken into meticulously precise gestures, measurements and actions known by name only to the insiders. In this volume, authored by Olivier Saillard, director of the Galliera Museum of fashion in Paris, Herm s for the first time in its history reveals 100 previously unspoken terms essential to its handcrafted ethos. With wit and poetry, Saillard explicates these terms, providing a glimpse into a territory dedicated to the hands, its range and variety of activity often unsuspected, a never ending ballet of agile fingers steadily handling tools over tamed materials. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Olivier SaillardPublisher: Actes Sud Imprint: Actes Sud Dimensions: Width: 9.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.10cm Weight: 0.204kg ISBN: 9782330002756ISBN 10: 2330002750 Pages: 155 Publication Date: 30 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |