Hermes has renovated and expanded its historic Chicago store located at the intersection of Oak and Rush Streets in the Gold Coast area.

The store is located in a heritage building and the luxury brand engaged Parisian architecture agency Rdai to lead the refurbishment. The architects experimented with colours for the store, going from dark chocolate on the ground floor to pink, beige and white stucco on the upper floors.

The store is filled with natural light thanks to large glass windows onto the streets. Rdai accentuated the building’s wavy ceiling and walls, remodelling the cladding of the existing curved staircase.

The brand displays jewellery and fragrance collections are displayed on one side of the stores and men’s ready-to-wear fashion on the left.

A private salon and after-sales lounge have been added to the second floor, which has pastel curtains.

Original artworks adorn the walls, including “Snowflake” – photographs by Japanese Yuji Obata and Tomio Seike – the portrait of a horse by French painter Louis Robert Heyrault, an equestrian picture by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, and black-and-white photographs of American jazzmen Cozy Cole and Dizzy Gillespie.