Silmo d’Or, the optics Loggies
I’ve been buying innovative, cutting edge eyewear from the tres elegant Nadine, joint owner of Face a Face for over 10 years
Graz, Silmo. Poster shows process of acetate production. Interesting fact: acetate frames (or ‘plastics’) are made from trees, not petrochemicals.
Reichstag, Bundestag Chamber, German parliament lit naturally by indirect reflected light off inverted cone of mirrors. Note the massive curved screen that tracks the sun to prevent direct solar reflection into chamber which would be too glary.
Augenblick, Berlin
Discovered this delightful store In Charlottenberg where we’d gone to visit Manufactum. Profiling Michel Henau brand in shop window, GSO should already have taken delivery of their range.
Manufactum is Germany’s equivalent of Sydney’s Remo General Store yet
this store is in a different league. Beautiful mens clothing, glassware, stationary, cookware, toys. All available online. www.manufactum.de
Its all about matte. Matte cars, matte glasses.
Graz tells us the matte cars is a plastic film (think: Contact, school books) that you put on your car when new, a protective layer for $3k.
Hot Jeep outside Brillen and Schneideri, optom in uber Mitte district, East Berlin. They carried Graz, including his new matte range. There’s a pattern here.
