Hermes Le Potager Extraordinaire (The Extraordinary Vegetable Garden) Spotless

Calling all gardeners! What incredible colours – they really pop! And extraordinary detail! Highly collectible, our example appears spotless, but it’s possible that cleaning has resulted in a little creasing and the removal of that ‘newness sheen’. The care label has been removed. Condition 9/10.

This fabulous Hermes scarf was designed by the acclaimed French artist Pierre Marie, and first issued for the Autumn/Winter 2014 / 2015 collection.

Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and the imaginary island of Lilliput, the design depicts a whimsical, miniature world where a vegetable garden transforms into a complex, bustling city populated by tiny “Lilliputian” people.The scarf features incredible hidden details that reward close inspection.

Pierre Marie is a favourite modern Hermès collaborator known for his densely packed, narrative illustrations.

Hermes writes:  Like the island of Lilliput, discovered by Lemuel Gulliver in the course of his extraordinary Travels, as related by Jonathan Swift, the inhabitants of Pierre-Marie’s imagined city are ‘lilliputian’ (tiny) indeed. The design presents the delightful spectacle of their daily lives. In this childlike world of transformations and metmorphoses, a vegetable garden becomes a complex city inhabited by creatures identical to ourselves in every way, but who are no more than an inch or two in height. Flowing with water thanks to an ingenious irrigation system doubling as a water-slide, the city’s dwelling-places are clearly named: cucumis melo (a melon), foeniculum (a fennel bulb) or cucurbita maxima (a pumpkin)… Take time to look around – there are surprises and delights at every turn. Lovers meet in the shade of a grove of leeks, a man sits meditating at the heart of a lotus-shaped artichoke, a marrow is cut to form a car, and a miniscule duo set to work slicing a radish with a two-handled saw…