This project gleans its inspiration from some rough sketches dating back to the XVII century that had been found under the seat of a penny-farthing given to my great-grandfather by... Read more

This project gleans its inspiration from some rough sketches dating back to the XVII century that had been found under the seat of a penny-farthing given to my great-grandfather by a nobleman of the time. After a reinterpretation in a modern key that I made in collaboration with a very dear friend of mine working as a designer in Los Angeles, I came back to Italy and, in a small craftsmen’s studio, I gave life to this adventure trying to tell the birth of the eyewear from that ages’ point of view.

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