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Hermès Birkin 35 Fauve Barenia Faubourg Palladium Hardware
$28,794.00
Hermès Birkin 35 Fauve Barenia Faubourg Palladium Hardware
Barenia is the leather Hermès built its name on, the oiled saddle calfskin from the equestrian workshops, and Fauve is its original shade: the warm russet tan of new tack that deepens toward chestnut with handling. Barenia Faubourg, named for 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré, is the house's grained reinterpretation of that heritage hide, double-tanned with chrome and vegetable dyes and saturated in oils over weeks, carrying a small printed grain that shrugs off the surface scratches smooth Barenia collects.
The leather keeps everything collectors want from the original: the scent, the slight sheen, the blind unfoiled heat stamp reserved for the Barenia family, and the slow-building patina, which arrives more evenly on the grained surface than the dramatic darkening of smooth Barenia. Palladium hardware plays cool metal against the warm tan, and the 35 is the size the Birkin was born in, drafted for Jane Birkin in 1984 as a working day bag. Interior is lined in Chèvre with one zip pocket and one open pocket.
Condition: 2 – Excellent
Stamp: W (2024)
Color: Fauve
Material: Barenia Faubourg
Hardware: Palladium
Interior: Chèvre
Includes: Full set
Dimensions: 35 × 25 × 18 cm | 13.8" W × 9.8" H × 7.1" D
Handle Drop: 11 cm | 4.3"
Collector's Insight:
Barenia in any form is among the scarcest allocations in the Hermès leather program: the tanning cycle is long, few artisans are certified to work it, and boutique availability is intermittent rather than seasonal. Fauve is the shade the leather was designed around, the direct line back to the saddle shop, and Barenia Faubourg examples surface in the resale market far less often than Togo or Clémence Birkins while drawing the buyer who specifically hunts heritage leathers.
Resale Insight:
The Barenia buyer is the most leather-literate segment of the Hermès secondary market, purchasing the hide first and the silhouette second, which insulates these bags from color-cycle fashion. A Fauve 35 in Excellent condition with full set offers the patina-forward collector a bag already broken in the way this leather is meant to be, at the size built to be carried.
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