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Calm and Composed

September 2025

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Architectural Digest US

For their latest collection, Hermès and Nigel Peake conceive a graphic meditation on music

- MAYA IBBITSON

Calm and Composed

Musically speaking, a counterpoint is the juxtaposition of instruments that are harmonically dependent on one another but distinct in their rhythm and melody. You can hear the technique in everything from Bach's fugues to Radiohead's "Paranoid Android." Now Hermès and Nigel Peake have formed a chorus, rendering the concept in a 33-piece array of porcelain tableware. On plates, trays, spoons, bowls, and more, the Irish artist has created concentric borders reminis

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