Hermès Le TRIOMPHE du PALADIN Multiple colors

Superb square Hermes titled "The Triumph of Paladin", created by Julia Abadie in 1999. Will be reissued in 2002, which demonstrates its success.
The paladin is a knight who achieved one of the highest grades. It is part of a religious order and bearer of the sacred power of faith. However this term has undergone a fairly significant development in the sense of where knighted starting a crusade on behalf of a prestigious and military, the paladin name will eventually evoke a more humanistic concept of knight-errant (perhaps an amalgam with palabundus Latin meaning 'wandering', 'who travel constantly') defending the widow and the orphan.
This name comes from the Roman era. Under Diocletian, the body of the Praetorian Guard (unit of elite soldiers charged with protecting the general officers), made up of Roman foot soldiers, was replaced by a contingent of mounted barbarians. Their mount possession gave them the name of equites (jumper), a term also used at the time to denote the order of Roman knights. But this contingent was housed near the portico of the palatal Schole in Rome; time and distortion of language contributed to the Low Latin in creating the palatinus word (palace guard) to designate the elite knights constituting the personal guard of the square was part Charlemagne.Ce with 5 other squares ( " KOSMIMA ',' Skies Byzantines, "" Skyros "," Golden Strands "," 1821 "), the unprecedented exhibition" the Museum Out of the Box "for the 35th anniversary of the Benaki boutique" from Antiquity to modern design. "
Hermès has indeed participated in the exhibition with these six unique silk scarves that were designed by Greek artist and designer Julia Abadie. Each square featured in the exhibition included separate items and designs that could be found in the exhibits in the permanent collection of the Historical Museum in Athens, Greece.
From "KOSMIMA" (1994) featuring magnificent historical jewels, Byzantine geometric patterns in "Byzantines Skies" (1987), as this square, the viewer can easily recognize and appreciate the inspiration of these artifacts and Greek heritage on modern art.
Surrounded by an elegant pink margin and a frieze decorated with precious stones, we find 5 horsemen armed with swords and spears and 4 castles (jeweled also girded), whose architecture is very specific, letting us imagine the route and the battles fought to get from one to the other trying to always defend the oppressed.
The colors are beautiful and refined. paler pink background embellished with antique gold, different blues, old pink, beige, golden beige, garnet ... The gold center panel surrounded by cream and antique gold, stands, and highlighting other colors. A wonder !