FRANCIS DE LARA: eyewear as art
- By Editorial Team
Described as the world’s first fine jewellery-eyewear house, Francis de Lara creates premium eyewear pieces made by hand with precious metals and gemstones, with each piece taking over 250 to 750 hours to make, individually. Their FDL Editions, which form the more affordable diffusion line, are hand-finished. The first collection, ‘Ribbons and Serpents’, consists of pieces formed from 24 karat gold, sterling silver, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, amethysts, garnets, tourmaline and kunzite, along with accents of precious ebony. All materials are ethically sourced.
Each eyewear style is limited to an edition of 12, and never will one piece be the same stone and metal colour combination again, ensuring that every single piece is absolutely one of a kind. Francis de Lara harks back to jewellery of the Renaissance era, but in the unexpected and delightful shape of eyewear, which did not exist at that time. The new models for Autumn/Winter include ‘Arum’ featuring surgical stainless-steel with natural, responsibly-sourced gemstone teardrops and diamonds and Snake Eyes in gold-plated titanium and acetate with natural sapphires.
