No. 042
T&F
Tartaglia & Figli
Cadore · 1968
Catalogue scan
Twenty frames · One workshop · Cadore, Italy
The original article.
Still in production.
We revive frame patterns from the archives of European optical houses that no longer make them. Retooled in modern materials, made by hand in Cadore, in runs of fifty to two hundred.
Aldo · 1968
Tartaglia & Figli, Cadore. Issued 1968, discontinued 1981.
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Ines
1965 · Cat-eye optical, Florence · 51–17–140
Atelier Ines, Florence — issued 1965, discontinued 1973.
Atelier Ines was a Florentine optical house that made frames almost exclusively for women between 1955 and 1973. The Ines pattern — a soft cat-eye, upswept but only just — was described in its catalogue as "for the woman who reads, not the woman who is read." We took the description as direction.
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The archive
Catalogue scans from the optical houses we revive, sourced from estate sales, fairs, and the children of the people who made them.
No. 017
A·I
Atelier Ines
Florence · 1965
Catalogue scan
No. 081
MJ
Maison Junot
Paris · 1972
Pattern book
No. 029
V·O
Vega Ottica
Belluno · 1959
Catalogue scan
No. 056
H&S
Hardy & Sons
Birmingham · 1956
Order ledger
From the workshop
"We do not invent frames. We find ones that were made well, in small numbers, and stopped being made for reasons that had nothing to do with whether they were any good. Then we make them again — patiently, and only fifty at a time."
Caterina Vianello · Workshop principal, Cadore