The under-construction Brooklyn flagship of storied French luxury brand Herm\u00e8s has attracted attention on social media since it emerged from scaffolding in recent weeks. Highly visible on a prominent corner in Williamsburg, the storefront at 111 North 6th Street appears to be a group of 19th century brick buildings with bricked-over windows and big new modern openings punched through the facade. But it’s actually new.<\/p>\n
Not everyone is in on the joke. <\/p>\n
“Those large windows are an abomination,” “agreed,” “so bad” were some of the comments on an Instagram post<\/a> from observer of neighborhood businesses Williamsburgbedford. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> Single Page<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social media has been abuzz since the under-construction Brooklyn flagship of storied French luxury brand Herm\u00e8s emerged from scaffolding in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176696,"featured_media":540998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7645,7698],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-540955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-williamsburg"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At the New Herm\u00e8s Store Going Up in ‘Burg, the Original Details Are Fake","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/architecture\/hermes-store-brooklyn-architecture-111-north-6th-street\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/architecture\/hermes-store-brooklyn-architecture-111-north-6th-street\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/williamsburg-111-115-north-6th-street-hermes-nov122024-sdevries-1.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/williamsburg-111-115-north-6th-street-hermes-nov122024-sdevries-1.jpg"},"articleSection":"Architecture","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cate Corcoran"}],"creator":["Cate Corcoran"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Brownstoner","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2024-11-21T00:57:09Z","datePublished":"2024-11-21T00:57:09Z","dateModified":"2024-11-21T02:44:14Z"},"rendered":"