sarah illenberger was recently commissioned to decorate ten shop windows for hermès. items from the current hermès collection are accompanied by paper and card sculptures (animals, boats, musical instruments and more) to create the whimsical scenes in the windows of the kadewe department store in berlin.

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

project credits: sarah illenberger assistant: milena kling team: adrian hermanides gehard illenberger lisa bouvard max ganssmann yui mikami

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sarah illenberger represented by thierry kauffmann

thierry kauffmann – photographers and artists representatives http://www.thierrykauffmann.com

more • there’s some behind the scenes images over at german vogue  • read designboom’s recent interview with sarah sarah illenberger here.

— interested in paper? our design-aerobics paper course has just started!   sarah illenberger: hermès shop windows

design-aerobics 2011: PAPER course september 15 – november 15, 2011beyond a writing surface, paper can be used for so much more. furniture, lighting, packaging– from the planning stages to finished works, this fall designboom will explore the infinite possibilities of this material. to see a sample lesson and information on how to enroll click here.