HERMES, Paris. Hand-rolled silk twill square in shades of yellow, blue and black, Eleftheria model, after Elias Kafouros. With label and sale stamp. Size: 90 x 90 cm Elias Kafouros commemorates the bicentenary of his country's independence and celebrates the courage of his compatriots. His design unfurls like a flag, with each letter of the Greek word "freedom" inscribed in a landscape characteristic of the country's three regions: mainland Greece, the Peloponnese and the Aegean islands. Houses on mountainsides, bell towers, ancient colonnades, bridges and terraces flourish amid lush natural surroundings. In the center, the letter "θ" is superimposed on a lake and takes the form of a blue eye - for the Greeks, this warded off bad luck. Here, it symbolizes the contemporary citizen's open view of his or her cultural, social and human heritage. Resolutely forward-looking.