The Amalfi - gold oval sunglasses with solid navy-black lenses and a gold chain ending in two raw light-blue quartz stones, three-quarter view

The Amalfi

LE 4,999.00
LE 4,999.00
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The Amalfi - gold oval sunglasses with solid navy-black lenses and a gold chain ending in two raw light-blue quartz stones, three-quarter view
  • The Amalfi - gold oval sunglasses with solid navy-black lenses and a gold chain ending in two raw light-blue quartz stones, three-quarter view
  • The Amalfi - close-up of solid navy-black polycarbonate lens in a slim gold-finished oval rim
  • The Amalfi - close-up of two raw light-blue quartz stones hand-set in 18K gold-plated caps on a gold box chain
  • The Amalfi - gold oval sunglasses with solid navy-black lenses and a gold chain ending in two raw light-blue quartz stones, three-quarter view
  • The Amalfi - close-up of solid navy-black polycarbonate lens in a slim gold-finished oval rim
  • The Amalfi - close-up of two raw light-blue quartz stones hand-set in 18K gold-plated caps on a gold box chain
The Amalfi

The Amalfi

LE 4,999.00
LE 4,999.00

One of one. An oval frame in gold, slim in the rim and light on the face, with a straight bridge that keeps the line clean. The lenses are a solid deep navy-black, dark from edge to edge without a trace of fade. In place of temples, a gold chain runs back to two raw light-blue quartz stones, each hand-set in a gold-dipped cap.

The Frame

Gold-tone metal oval with a fine rim and a straight bridge. Temple-less: the chain is the temple.

The Lens

Solid navy-black polycarbonate lenses: lightweight, shatterproof, UV400. Fully dark, so your eyes stay yours and the rest of the face does the talking.

The Chain

18K gold-plated box chain, fine enough to disappear against the skin and to rest quietly at the collarbone when the glasses are lowered.

The Stone

Two natural light-blue quartz stones, left raw and hand-set in 18K gold-plated caps. One is slender and pointed, the other broader and a shade deeper in colour; they were never meant to match. This is the only Amalfi.

Designed in Egypt.

AS WORN

The Amalfi, on.

No studio. An afternoon out, and the pair exactly as it arrives — held by the chain, resting on the shoulders.

One of one · This pair, this stone

VANNAE
A length of gold box chain on black

THE ATELIER

One of one.

No arms. Real stone. Yours alone.

The Amalfi

THE OBJECT

A pair held by a chain.

Most glasses are held by two arms. These are held by a chain — and every other decision followed from that one.

THE FRAME

There are no arms.

The chain clips into a small gold loop at each corner, passes the ear, and falls. Behind that loop there is nothing at all.

  1. The loopWhere the chain clips in
  2. No armsNo hinge, no fold
The Amalfi

THE LENS

A lens that does not shatter.

Polycarbonate. It absorbs impact instead of breaking, and the UV400 filter is part of the material itself — no coating on top to scratch away or fade.

  1. UV400In the material, not a coating
  2. Impact-resistantTakes the hit and gives
Box link, plated in 18K gold. Box chainFour flat faces18K platingOver every surface

THE CHAIN

Box link, plated in 18K gold.

Square links keep their line instead of twisting into a rope, so the chain lies flat and stays put. The 18K plating covers every link, not just the faces you see.

  1. Box chainFour flat faces
  2. 18K platingOver every surface
Real stone. Never the same twice. NaturalFractures left aloneNo two alikeDifferent stone, different pair

THE STONE

Real stone. Never the same twice.

Every stone is natural — chosen, not made. No two come out of the ground alike, so no two pairs leave here alike.

  1. NaturalFractures left alone
  2. No two alikeDifferent stone, different pair
Extreme macro of the gold plating meeting the natural stone

Plated in 18K gold.

THE BALANCE

So what actually keeps it on?

Weight, settled before assembly. The chain is weighed against the frame and against the stone, so the piece balances itself and sits where you set it.

HOW IT IS MADE

Four decisions, in order.

01

Select

One stone is taken out of many, and its marks are left alone.

02

Gold

The collar around the stone is plated here in 18K gold.

03

Link

Built to length, plated through, fixed at each corner.

04

Balance

Frame, chain and stone, weighed against each other.

VANNAE

No two stones are alike,
so no two pairs are alike.

Held by a chain. Plated in 18K gold. Set with a stone that exists once.

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