A chanson de gestes : such was the definition of

Hermès proffered by a visitor being taken around

the workshops one day. It is certainly a good

description, for those who see the house "from

within", of the humming, mysteriously busy hive

that is the reality behind the famous signature.

It is a "land of the hand", a country whose extent

and variety of activity few could imagine. An

incessant ballet of nimble fingers deftly working

materials they master from start to finish.

Ménéhould du Chatelle