Hermes Scarf Les Ameriques The most Colourful Scarf of all!

This is your chance to own arguably Hermes’ most desired and colourful scarf, a ‘grail’ ! 

Designed by Kermit Oliver in 1992, this commemorative scarf depicts Christopher Columbus’s first encounter with the glory of the New World. In utterly extraordinary detail and colour, we see its people, its fauna and its flora, intertwined with old world pageantry: a map of the world as it was known in 1492, a magnificent native American figure, a stern Columbus, and the ships: Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.

This scarf has been used and loved. It appears in immaculate condition, and is lovely and soft and drapey, all the original colour and detail still intact. The care tag has been gently removed. Condition 9.6/10.

Kermit Oliver is the only American artist designing for Hermes. Reputedly, it took him six months to finish the drawing of Les Ameriques, as the details are so very intense.

Wikipedia adds:

‘La Niña’ (Spanish for ‘The Girl’) was one of the three Spanish ships used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies in 1492. As was tradition for Spanish ships of the day, she bore a female saint’s name, Santa Clara. However, she was commonly referred to by her nickname, La Niña (‘The Little Girl’), which was probably a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Niño of Moguer (‘Niño’, his surname, meaning ‘Little Boy’). She was a standard caravel-type vessel, about 60 tons.

Niña, like Pinta and Santa María, was a smaller trade ship built to sail the Mediterranean sea, not the open ocean.

Niña logged at least 25,000 nautical miles (46,000 km) under Columbus’ command.