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" Back in the 1920s, French interior designer Jean-Michel Frank asked Herm\u00E8s to cover several of his furniture pieces with the luxury house&amp;#039;s famous buttery leather. It was the first of many collaborations between the two powerhouse design talents. With the inauguration last November of its new Left Bank store\u2014the company&amp;#039;s second largest in Paris, after the Faubourg Saint-Honor\u00E9 flagship\u2014Herm\u00E8s launched Herm\u00E8s, La Maison, a home furnishings line that offers reproductions of Frank&amp;#039;s iconic club chairs and other stellar examples of his work. The collection also includes its 1980s Pippa travel furniture line and new equestrian-print wallpaper, fabrics, and hand-knotted silk carpets\u2014all available in U.S. branches beginning this month. &amp;quot;We had so many clients ask us to do our silk and cashmere prints as fabrics and cushions,&amp;quot; says H\u00E9l\u00E8ne Dubrule, general director of Herm\u00E8s&amp;#039;s home division, &amp;quot;we thought it made sense to put some into production. We are giving our customers a chance to live in Herm\u00E8s.&amp;quot;  The store itself is a design wonder. Paris-based architecture firm RDAI transformed the &amp;#039;30s-era municipal swimming pool at 17 rue de S\u00E8vres, which in the last few decades has served as a sportswear boutique, a mattress store, and a clothing outlet, into a soaring contemporary space. To brighten the entrance corridor, they installed florist Baptiste Pitou and a bookshop with a selection tr\u00E8s horsey and housey. On the former pool deck, under a skylight ceiling, freestanding counters display Herm\u00E8s&amp;#039;s acclaimed silk scarves, handbags, and perfumes. And, down a wide staircase in the deep, mosaic-floored pool basin, three giant ash-wood lattice huts house the Maison line as well as items from Petit H, a collection of quirky pieces made of rejects, like a tube lamp of imperfect porcelain espresso cups. A 30-seat caf\u00E9, aptly called Le Plongeoir, wraps along the balcony where the diving board used to be. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t think of this as a new store,&amp;quot; says Herm\u00E8s chairman and CEO Patrick Thomas. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re saying, &amp;#039;Welcome to our home.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Welcome, we certainly are. Click here to see photos and products from the shop. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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