Hermès is drifting underwater and taking the table with it.
With Natures Marines, the Maison imagines porcelain as marine life, gently shaped by currents, light, and time. Like fragments of a marine life slowly revealed by the tide, the pieces seem to belong to the sea long before they belong to the table.
Plates, bowls, teacups and teapots appear like quiet species resting on the seashore, covered in algae, coral, sea fans and soft botanical forms. They spread across porcelain surfaces as if carried by a current.
Designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, with illustrations by British artist Katie Scott, the collection spans 34 pieces. Each one feels alive. Coral branches stretch across porcelain, algae curl and overlap, and colors shift between sandy beiges, calming greens, sun-warmed reds and rose tones. A hand-painted gold line runs through the pieces, catching the light like a reflection under water.
The drawings take inspiration from 19th-century botanical charts and the marine flora of the Welsh coastline. Nothing feels loud or forced. Everything moves slowly. This is tableware that prefers drifting to performing.
Even the presentation echoed that mood and made the experience even more immersive.
Set in a vast, empty space, the pieces appeared emerging from coral-like rock formations and sandy reliefs. Plates were partially buried, bowls half-revealed, as if embedded in the seabed itself. Some objects felt newly uncovered, others still held by the earth like porcelain fossils in the making.
It gave the impression that the collection wasn’t placed there, but grown there.
Natures Marines isn’t about setting the table. It’s about turning the table into a marine landscape that is dreamy, quiet, and slightly surreal. Hermès doesn’t decorate the ocean. It listens to it.
