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Of a young man who moved halfway across the world to Japan, a place he will never fit in but feels at home. An engineer/research scientist who became disillusioned with big business and the “ever more” which drives our society.
A man who has a deep appreciation for craftsmanship and design as well as the connection between the creator and user which we have lost. A man who believes that we pigeonhole ourselves into “designer”, “engineer”, “laborer”, “salesman”.

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DESIGN CONCEPT
Deeply satisfying without overwhelming the senses. Japanese aesthetic in a neoclassic setting. Simply put, we strive to create something that makes others look twice and not stare.
Western design and aesthetics have taken over the world. Big flavors – sweet, salty, spicy overwhelm and dull the senses. But more than enough is often too much.
In our quest for always more always bigger we have deadened our senses, the more we have the less satisfied we are, our products and our lives lack the depth, lack staying power, force us to move on, we are never satisfied.

MOLDING MATERIALS
Those who don’t want to be run of/through the mill. For those who say f%#k the talk and walk the walk.
Those who chose not what is “IN” but what speaks to them. Those who do what they do not because they have to but because they must, because it is what they are, because it makes them say oH every morning when they get up. For the quiet, the contemplative, the creative, the kind.
Those who don’t want you to stare but who want others who understand to look again. The chief, the ceramic thrower, the silversmith, the chair maker, the guitar player, the writer, the therapist, the volunteer, those who see the details, who work towards a world as it should be, not necessarily how it is

MANUFACTURE
In Japan, most eyewear is made piecework. That means that each factory or shop performs one task and then sends the parts along to the final factory to be assembled, parts and frames can go through as many as 10 different shops before they are completed.
Slabs of Italian and Japanese acetate and titanium are cut, bent, finished, polished as they wind their way through our shop. Our craftspeople follow the parts and frames around until they are brought to life leaving a little bit of themselves in each frame produced.