The new flagship store of famous French fashion label Hermès on the left bank of the river Seine is located inside the listed “Piscine Lutetia”, a former public bath on Rue de Sèvres, Paris (6th Arrondissement). The core of the showroom is comprised of three curved pavilions built from crossed timber slats. These freestanding structures, each up to eight meters high, are arranged in the spacious atrium. A staircase with banister following the same design principle connects them to the entry level. designtoproduction carried out the detailed fabrication planning for the wooden objects. The complete 3D-modelling included the development of optimization rules for the segmentation of the slats, the precise definition of more han 7,000 individual components and their 4,000 connection points, the “unrolling” of the curved segments into the plane and their optimal arrangement on almost 600 panels of raw material. | 
