Plastic fantastic...
If I was being accurate, that header post above would read ‘Polycarbonate Fantastic’ but that just doesn’t have the same ring.
If I am talking about plastic that I LOVE, I can only be talking about Kartell
The world might be saying no to some kind of plastics but these guys have been designing and creating exciting and innovative high-quality durable, recyclable, plastic design pieces since 1949
Now they are doing eyewear
Please hide my credit card…
KARTELL EYEWEAR,
A NEW VISION OF DESIGNThe complete collection consists of a Main Collection and a Design Collection, containing a total of 100 different sun and vision articles between them. Rodolfo Dordoni, Ferruccio Laviani, Piero Lissoni and Fabio Novembre were called on to interpret the Design Collection. Each contributed his own personal interpretation, but a clear Kartell look still remains thanks to elements and materials derived from the brand’s industrial design concept. As with all Kartell collections, the new Eyewear Collection features many different materials. In this case too, they are cleverly combined to construct unique geometric shapes and to produce different forms and thicknesses reminiscent of Kartell’s best loved product lines. Transparency, in the latest Kartell colour palette, is a leading protagonist and confers elegance and character on these essential fashion accessories
If I was pushed to only choose one pair it would surely be these rose coloured beauties below , the LAMINA Show Piece
Uno + Uno = Tre is the first idea that generated the Kartell Eyewear collection. Lamina is born from the combination of two different but harmonious silhouettes merged into each other to give life to a third graphic sign which, in a game of overlapping, generates multiple dimensions according to the angles of light and different shades of color generated by the combination of transparent materials
Having said that we all know that just before I pressed ‘pay’ I would whip them out the basket for the black ones above. Hahaha
Queen Marie
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