Original niche eyewear

New image video

2009-04-06T02:19:00.000-07:00

We are proud to show you our new grotesque|frame image video created by mr. Yasutaka Nakahira from Japan! Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AenHrw6DMwM

Japan limited

2009-03-26T08:48:00.000-07:00

While in europe everybody seems to look for "the even thinner, even more invisible, even more uncoloured" frame, Japan is what is always was: A trendsetter with the eye on unusual products and ideas.

So we decided to create a special edition for our customers in Japan as we got many inquiries from there. Japanese people love original stuff...the goal was to create a unique style which is crazy enough for Japan (this is not so easy :-)). Pictures will be available in a couple of weeks!

This new style called "Orochi" will be launched on SLIT show begin of April. So guys; I fou want to go really crazy, my suggestion is: leave Europe, visit Japan!

MIDO 09

2009-03-26T08:28:00.000-07:00

Just a few sentences about the last MIDO. Last year MIDO management announced that the MIDO show will take place in March instead of May which was a traditional date for MIDO since many years.

We were thinking if we should go and exhibit, but our decision was: no. There are a couple of reasons that created our decision but I want to talk about one of them:

They proudly announced that the show is held together with the fur fashion exhibition! What the hell? Who wears fur?? Everybody knows that animals get killed cruently just for people without taste to show how much money they have....wake up guys, this is disgusting. So we are not supporting this with our money and exhibit just a hall away from the animal-murder show.

I hope the MIDO management will wake up and go back to its roots...a nice eyewear show in a nice month.

Anyway....we visited MIDO on saturday and saw what we expected to see: Empty halls. Obviously not many opticians have time or motivation to buy frames in March....i know the MIDO as a full and good show when it took place in May. But..this gave us time to see some of our buddies there and chat about this and that.

Happy 2009 - Join the cool eyewear community

2009-01-03T13:49:00.000-08:00

We start the new year with a new project. We opened a facebook group for everybody that loves original eyewear. Consumers that wear cool frames, producers and designers. Anybody that is passionate about innovative eyewear is invited to join the group. So, what are you waiting for....?

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=107533565091

Back from Silmo

2008-11-12T01:02:00.000-08:00

Back from Silmo we had a good time in Paris seeing some good friends and customers. The people were crazy about our new limited edition "Kagiri 3 - the puzzle". A brand new concept was realized: A picture (our pop-art picture with the Miggi frame) was anodized on a 1.5 mm thick aluminium sheet and 48 pairs of temples were cutted directly out of the metal. So the people chose their favourite part of the picture. Every pair of temples looks unique. This project was limited to 48 pairs worldiwde and only for the time of Silmo. Sorry for who hasn't got one....Paris is always worth a trip!

Silmo 08 invitation

2008-10-07T08:26:00.000-07:00

We cordially invite everybody to visit our booth and see the new collections at this year's Silmo! Come to lovely Paris and see some great stuff....this season's theme: Light metal! Booth I58 in the village (Hall3/1). Watch the invitation video in your language:

English

French

Japanese

New japanese blog

2008-09-17T08:13:00.000-07:00

For all japanese customers and all others that can read japanese please visit the grotesque|frame blog made by our man in Japan, Nobuyoshi Kinoshita. He informs about the latest news from grotesque|frame and additional gossip that's worth to get mentionned.

http://grotesqueframe.blog36.fc2.com

In vacation

2008-09-04T07:44:00.000-07:00

During our vacation this august we had the chance to visit a beautiful city called Erfurt in the former eastern part of Germany. Erfurt is a middle sized city with many small pubs and a lot of history. But our main target there was to visit Andreas Licht who is the genius behind the "Herrlicht" wooden eyewear collection. He lives and works in a romantic backyard house with a lot of nature....you can even find a small creek just next to his house. We had a very good time with Andreas and Eva!

"Herrlicht", which means "Mr. Light". Funny story. He needed to change it into "Mr. Light" from only "Light" as everybody was ringing his bell accidently instead of switchng the light on.

The beautiful backyard.

Japanese press reactions

2008-07-21T01:27:00.000-07:00

After SLIT show in Tokyo we received great press attention.

A message from Japan

2008-07-18T00:24:00.001-07:00

Our man in Japan, Nobu-San just dropped us a cool video that he made. Check it out:

http://cmizer.com/movie/5373

A little Silmo 2008 preview

2008-07-04T02:02:00.000-07:00

This year's Silmo will take place from 30.10 - 02.11.2008. The first time that it will be open from thursday to sunday. We kind of like the idea to have full 4 days, the future will show if the visitors like it as well. As a very little preview we can tell you that we are working on not less than 10 new models for the show. As a very special highlight we will present 2 very new materials that were not used so far in the eyewear industry. Sorry, we cannot tell more....at the moment.

Fun Tokyo 2008

2008-06-09T06:39:00.001-07:00

The Tokyo tower.......not as nice as in Paris but higher and lighter.

Standing on glass....135 meters above the ground

Frosch househould cleaners....seeems to be a luxury design item in Japan, haha. Seen at Mitsukoshi/Ginza

A Bonsai tree. 200 years old! Found in Yoyogi park.

A golden Koi seen at Yoyogi Park. Guess it's worth a few bucks...

Snakes on a plane? No, snakes in the park....just a few meters away...

Scenes like that you will not see in Germany :-)

How many ipods did they sell to afford a store like this in the middle of Ginza, the most expensive place in the world?

Tokyo view from Tokyo tower. There are for sure nicer cities in the world but a more exciting one is hard to find!

Typical crossing scene at Shibuya station!

SLIT Tokyo 2008

2008-06-09T05:21:00.001-07:00

We were invited to a very special eyewear show that took place in Tokyo, Japan. The SLIT (Salon de Lunetterie International Tokyo) was organized for the first time by japanese eyewear guru Kazuo Takahashi (www.jurajura.com). Location was one of the most exclusive places on this planet: Omotesando Hills.

Our good friend, very new agent and also customer: Mr. Nobuyoshi Kinoshita (wearing a Kagiri 2 limited model in red...unfortunately sold out) www.kinoshita-opt.com

Our former agent and good friend: Mr. Hiroshi Yasuda (by the way as you alraedy guessed: The hats are our original german gifts for them). He's wearing new Model "Jupp".

Our booth (Every company had the same size). Nobu in action.

Our customer from Toyota-City: Mr. Tetsushi Takami. Looks a bit surprised...must have been our new designs :-)

A buffet was served at the party...nice idea and good taste!

Daniela and Mehran, our good designer friend from Vancouver, Canada (www.spec-eyeworks.com)

A pretty japanese model wearing a Kimono poses with Mod. Mercury of Daniela's new collection called "Kustomeyes"(www.KustomEyes.com).