APERÇU
Japanese acetate & brushed titanium.
Two hundred pairs. No restock. No retail.
The Collection
1882 – 1941
Named for Virginia Woolf
The Woolf
Honey tortoise acetate from Mazzucchelli's 1849 mill, paired with a hair-thin titanium bridge. The oval lens reads fragile until you hold it.
Honey Tortoise Acetate · Titanium Bridge
Edition
153 / 200
1899 – 1986
Named for Jorge Luis Borges
The Borges
Midnight indigo acetate with a faint marble vein. Wide rectangular silhouette. The hinge is seven-barrel, hand-fitted in Sabae, Japan.
Midnight Indigo Acetate · Seven-Barrel Hinge
Edition
177 / 200
1934 – 2021
Named for Joan Didion
The Didion
Smoked grey acetate, near-clear at the rim, deepening toward the temple. Cat-eye geometry kept to its minimum. Worn best at dusk.
Gradient Smoke Acetate · Brushed Titanium Temple
Edition
189 / 200
On Craft
Every sheet of Mazzucchelli acetate begins as a cellulose slurry pressed between steel rollers at the 1849 mill in Castiglione Olona.
The colour is not applied — it is grown into the material over seventy-two hours of curing, which is why no two pairs share an identical grain.
The hinge is seven-barrel, hand-fitted in Sabae, Fukui Prefecture — the region that supplies eyewear to the Vatican and the Élysée.
We do not use spring hinges. The resistance is calibrated once, by hand, to the weight of the specific frame.
Availability
Two hundred pairs. Each numbered.
When the edition closes, it closes. We do not restock. We do not retail. The number on your case is the number on your pair.
"Two hundred pairs. No restock. No retail."
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Two hundred pairs. No restock. No retail.