Some Most Unusual Spectacles: A Holiday Adventure Story
When you collect anything seriously, you develop sources. Eyewear is no different. One of my best was a very old man, with a long scar on his face and an archaic Brooklyn accent, right...
Category: 1920s
Vernon and Irene Castle and The Birth of Fashion Eyewear
So the topography of the eyewear industry is changing. Sometimes people forget change offers opportunity. I wonder how many realize fashion eyewear as a category was born out of change and uncertainty. Let’s examine...
Shuron 12K Gold Filled Glasses & an American History lesson
Pictured is some of the best made mass produced eyewear ever. A lovely art deco pattern zigs and zags over every surface of the beveled eyewires and temples. The cast skull temples gleam. The...
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