Morwen, a company specialising in the production of spectacle frames, was founded in the province of La Spezia, in the north-west of Italy, in the early 1960s. At that time, glasses were entirely handmade. This fact led to the development of specialised workers: the...
In 1896, goldsmith Ferdinand Menrad founded his optics company “Wurttembergische Optische Industrie-Anstalt Ferdinand Menrad” in Schwäbisch Gmünd in southern Germany. In 1910 they employed 50 people, and their production was done in-house, using numerous...
The Gambini family opened its first optical shop in 1912, in Bologna, an activity that continues despite many difficulties through two world wars. But it is thanks to Germano, grandson of the founder, that it evolves into something new and revolutionary for the time....
The beginnings The designer shows his talent from a very young age, when he wins, not yet 17 years old, a national painting competition, with an oil painting. After a degree in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1969, Ferré enters the fashion...
Essilor was born in 1972,from the merger of Essel and Silor, two companies that turned their rivalry into the third company of the time in the ophthalmic optical sector. It was 1849 when small artisan workshops in Paris that assembled glasses combined giving life to...
A long tradition of quality and innovation Arnold and Alleliese Schmied founded the company in 1964,in Linz, Austria and immediately promoted glasses as a fashion accessory, creating models that are characterized by a very high search for quality, exceptional comfort...
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