Interior designer Charlotte Macaux Perelman has created five colourful houses at Milan design week for fashion brand Hermès to exhibit a range of furniture, textiles and objects.
Each of the houses, which measure five by 10 by seven metres, have been built on top of a bed of sand and are covered in playful, geometric prints.
Designer Charlotte Macaux Perelman created five houses for the fashion brand Hermès
The walls have been covered in a unique combination of colours, lines and shapes. One is replete with a chequerboard pattern of bright yellow and white squares, another has red pinstripes and others make use of dizzying lines.
"This scenography was inspired by the traditional architecture of houses from all traditional cultures covered with earth, lime or plaster and painted by hand completed by artisans from La Scala in Milan," Hermès told Dezeen. Each house is wrapped in a different colour scheme and pattern
The site-specific installation draws on the brand's known affiliation with bright colours and distinctive patterns.
"Colours and graphism are essential at Hermès, specifically in our textile, porcelain and objects collections," explained Hermès.
The designer drew on the architecture of houses built with earth, lime and plaster
The houses form a "village" inside the Italian sports centre La Pelota as they are dotted along a continuous pathway or street. This creates what the brand sees as "a dialogue between volumes, colours...