MINT! “Acte III Scene I La Clairiere” (The Clearing) in Original Box and Tissue

The perfect gift for the theatre lover in your life, this magnificent Hermes scarf is as new – mint, and has almost never removed from its perfect original box and tissue.

The design provides the mainstay of any self-respecting Hermes scarf collection. Created by Edouard Baribeaud in 2018, its name is taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Written in the late 16th century, A Midsummer’s Dream is an enchanting comedy of errors, drawing its humour from the confusion caused by falling in love.

In a magical forest, young lovers, a theatrical troupe, fairies and elves cross paths and co-mingle in endless plot twists.

Act III, Scene 1 sees a group of tradesmen meeting in the woods to rehearse their play. Robin Goodfellow happens upon them and transforms Bottom’s head into that of an ass. Abandoned by his terrified friends, Bottom sings under the moonlight. His singing awakens Titania, queen of the fairies, who, under the influence of the flowers’ magic, falls in love with him, and takes him away to sleep in her bower.

In this illustration of the scene, Édouard Baribeaud pays homage to Baroque theatre, Indian miniatures and early cinema.

Edouard Baribeaud (b.1984 in Paris, France) draws us into a very different kind of space where the archaic meets the mythical and the folkloric is elevated to the grandest of designs. Baribeaud’s fine drawings translate into theatrical visions which entice the viewer into a land of fantastic and characterful imaginings. The work of Edouard Baribeaud is characterised by his bilingualism and a dual cultural identity.

Born in 1984 to a French father and a German mother he was brought up in France and studied book illustration and printmaking at Paris’ prestigious École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. In 2010 he moved to Berlin, where he has since created an impressive body of works on paper.

Baribeaud has an astonishing command of the classical techniques (pen and ink drawing, painting in watercolors and gouache paint) – and delights in mixing them freely, combining seemingly incompatible styles within the same drawing.

In addition to the history of art and the experiences of everyday life, Baribeaud often turns to film history as a source of inspiration. The fact that he likes working in extended series, with the individual drawings bearing a chronological and narrative coherence, point to this cinematic approach to drawing.