{"title":"Birkin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hermes-birkin-25-sauge-swift-palladium-hardware-2015","title":"Hermès Birkin 25 Sauge Swift Palladium Hardware 2015","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eSwift is the leather to choose when the colour is the point. Fine-grained to the edge of smooth, with a slight sheen, it takes dye more deeply than any grained calfskin Hermès works — saturated colours read richest on it, and quiet ones read cleanest. Sauge is a soft sage green, and on Swift it holds as one continuous tone across the panels rather than breaking up over a grain.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAt 25cm the Birkin is at its most compact, and Swift's softness suits that: the bag has some give to it, where a rigid leather at this size can read as a box. The trade is honest. Swift marks under pressure more readily than Togo or Epsom, and that is a characteristic of the leather rather than a flaw in the piece.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, holds the green without warming it toward olive.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp T (2015). In excellent condition, with clochette, lock, and original dust bag. 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The pebbled grain introduced in 1997 has a raised, finely veined surface that takes light unevenly, so a strong colour shades across the panel instead of sitting as a single block. Togo also resists scratches and light water and keeps its structure without stiffening.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware — a platinum-group metal, cool silver, resistant to tarnish — keeps the pairing cold rather than pushing the blue toward the tropical.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp A (2017). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578783256789,"sku":"H-0005","price":20800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/bC1_3942213.jpg?v=1787256605"},{"product_id":"hermes-birkin-30-noir-togo-gold-hardware-2015","title":"Hermès Birkin 30 Noir Togo Gold Hardware 2015","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eBlack is the least forgiving finish on a Birkin. It hides nothing — every scuff, every slack seam, every softened corner reads at a glance — which makes the leather choice matter more here than it does on a colour.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTogo, introduced in 1997, is a pebbled calfskin with a raised grain and fine veining. It resists scratching and light water, keeps its shape without going rigid, and is light for its substance. In black, that grain is the only thing giving the surface depth; the same panels in a smooth leather would read flat.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGold hardware is the warmer of the two options, and against black it sits on the surface rather than sinking into it. At 30cm, the size the house now sees requested most, in the configuration people reach for when they intend to use the bag rather than keep it.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp T (2015). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. 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It also resists scratching and light water and stays light in the hand, which is why it became the house's most-used leather for this bag.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAt 25cm the Birkin is at its most compact — the same silhouette Hermès has run since 1984, sangles and touret and clochette intact, at a scale that works into an evening. Palladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, keeps the pink from turning sweet.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp [R] (2014). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. 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At 35cm that means a bag with some give to it rather than one that stands rigid, which is either the appeal or the objection depending on how you carry.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe 35 is the largest of the three standard sizes and the closest to the format Hermès first built in 1984. Palladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, is the restrained choice against a blue this deep.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp D (2019). In excellent condition, with clochette, lock, key, original dust bag, and rain cover. 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Epsom is why it stays that emphatic. The leather is calfskin embossed under heat, so the cross-hatch grain is pressed into the hide rather than grown out of it, leaving a flat, uniform surface that carries a strong colour without shading or drift. Epsom is rigid and scratch-resistant besides, which is why a bag built in it keeps square corners years into use.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, is the sharper of the two options against a pink this bright.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp T (2015). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. 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The skin is polished by hand with an agate stone until the scales take a glass-like surface, and on a colour this strong the effect is severe: Geranium is a deep, warm red, and glazed, it holds light at the raised centre of each scale and drops to shadow in the seams between them. It is the piece in this catalog that photographs least like itself.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, is the colder of the two options and the one that stops the red from running hot.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp T (2015). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. CITES documentation on file. 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The pebbled calfskin introduced in 1997 has a raised, finely veined grain that resists scratching and light water and holds the bag's shape without stiffening it, and on a dark blue that grain is what keeps the panels from collapsing into flat black. At 30cm, the size the house now sees requested most.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, against a cold exterior. The warmth is all on the inside, which is the point of a Verso.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp C (2018). In excellent condition. Includes clochette, lock, and original dust bag. The lock is present; the key is not included. 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