Hermès towels travelogue
Tierney Gearon turned a 30‑year obsession with Hermès beach towels into a global visual travelogue — photographing towels in settings from Japan to Colorado to mix luxury objects with local architecture and landscape. (wallpaper.com)
The book appears in two commercial editions: a Struktur Editions hardback, 136 pages, published 20 October 2025 (ISBN 9781838437466). (amazon.ie) Alongside that release, Gearon issued a limited, self-published run of 1,000 copies priced at $125 and offered through her site and Alex Eagle’s shop. (wallpaper.com) Gearon says the project began with a first Hermès towel bought in St Barts in 1991 and that her archive expanded to roughly 300 towels after an extended search that intensified during the COVID lockdown. (tierneygearon.com) By 2020 the collection numbered about 30 towels before she hunted down additional designs to reach the larger archive now documented in the book. (wallpaper.com) Over three years of work she photographed “a few dozen” of those towels on location — examples cited in the book include spreads in a Moroccan courtyard, a Mexican house, a tent in the Hamptons and a hut wrapped in Colorado. (wallpaper.com) Gearon’s project framing is described by the artist as a visual diary that places individual towels within the cultural and natural settings of places such as Mexico City, Montana, California, India, Marrakech, Greece, Japan, Hawaii and St Barts. (tierneygearon.com)
