Hermès Maisons by RDAI: 50 years of flagships
The Hermès Maison RDAI opening on New Bond Street in June 2026 is the latest entry in a fifty-year lineage that began when Rena Dumas drew her first Hermès boutique in 1976, and it is the most architecturally ambitious one yet: 2,000 square metres stitched across six Grade II-listed buildings, 55 rooms, five staircases, four elevators, and 500-plus artworks curated by Pierre-Alexis Dumas. The architect of record, as it has been for every Hermès point of sale since 1972, is RDAI — Rena Dumas Architecture Intérieure — now run by Denis Montel and Julia Capp from the same Paris studio that Rena Dumas founded the year before her son Pierre-Alexis was born. The London Maison is not a one-off commission to a starchitect. It is the 300th iteration of a system the family has been refining since the Pompidou era. ...