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# Leather Forever
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/leather-forever/
- Published: 2012-05-14T15:11:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:34.000Z
- Description: For their 175th year, luxury brand Hermes have just opened a new exhibition at the Royal Academy
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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For their 175th year, luxury brand [Hermes](http://www.hermes.com/?ref=protein.xyz) have just opened a new exhibition at the [Royal Academy](http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/?ref=protein.xyz) celebrating their lengthy relationship with leather, aptly named 'Leather Forever'. Designed by [Alexandra Plat](http://www.alexandraplat.com/?ref=protein.xyz), the exhibition is the ultimate hommage to the world of leather, with all aspects of the Hermes craft process celebrated and explored in-depth.

The exhibition is spread over 12 rooms, with each room dedicated to a different aspect of the brand. Upon entering, visitors are greeted with a 'room of skins', with colourful leathers draped across walls and surfaces. In the following room, craftspeople from the Hermes workshop in Paris sit in an on-site workshop demonstrating the intricate craft process the products entail. A 'sunset-lit desert room' equipped with sandy floor and tented display showcase travel-related accessories, while a winged saddle hangs in pride of place in a room entitled, 'When dreams become reality.' Ending the exhibition is a decadent stage curtain which open to reveal four one-off bags dedicated to the four corners of the British Isles (a green bag with shamrock motif for Ireland, for example).

Like the '[Beauty in the Making](http://prote.in/feed/2012/05/beauty-in-the-making?ref=protein.xyz)' exhibition we mentioned a few weeks ago, this is a great example of a brand celebrating their craft through a physical exhibition and championing the 'making' process in its own right. It's open until May 27th so head down and check it out for yourself.

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