In vacation

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

After SLIT show in Tokyo we received great press attention.

A message from Japan

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

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

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

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).