Hands have always intrigued the artist Pilar Almon. “They’re so expressive,” she muses over Zoom. Behind her, a single manus floats, framed, on the wall. “I didn’t like the rest of the painting, so I cut this out,” she explains of the hovering appendage, one of several motifs that she and her design star son, Adam Charlap Hyman, have incorporated into a new collection for Schumacher.
Spanning wallpaper, fabrics, and passementerie, the line marks the latest in a series of family collaborations. “We have a similar aesthetic but we bring different things to a project,” says Almon, who previously teamed up with the AD100 firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero on opera sets, exhibition design, and paper lanterns. “We dot each other’s i’s and cross each other’s t’s.”