In 1878, the company “Fabbrica Occhiali A. Frescura e C.” founded by two brothers, street vendors of glasses and Giovanni Lozza, a skilled precision mechanic, was founded in Calalzo. The company assembles frames and lenses from abroad and opened several...
Metzler was founded in 1830 in Paris, and then moved to Stuttgart, Germany, in 1911. This historic German company has successfully collaborated with another sacred monster of German optics, the Zeiss, who’s lenses are mounted on many Metzler glasses, especially...
The name of the Marwitz family is part of the history of the German production of glasses for 100 years and continues as such to this day with its third generation. Marwitz & Hauser GmbH was founded in 1919 in the town of Aalen, near Stuttgart, and although...
The beginnings of the maison Dior The French designer revolutionized women’s fashion with his first haute couture collection in 1947. The lines he proposed were completely detached from the fashion of the time that had been affected by the war, its dramas and...
The beginnings and the Protector model It was 1917 when Giuseppe Ratti, photographer and owner of the optics shop “Berry” in Turin, begins to develop glasses with exceptional features of vision and protection from sunlight, wind and dust, especially...
The history of the Rodenstock company It was 1877 when Josef Rodenstock founded the company “Optisches Institut G. Rodenstock” with his brother in the city of Würzburg. In addition to lenses and frames, it also offers measurement tools of its own making....
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