The Menton - square gold-finished sunglasses with brown gradient lenses, three-quarter view, with gold chain and two raw blue quartz stones

The Menton

LE 4,999.00
Sale price  LE 4,999.00 Regular price 
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The Menton - square gold-finished sunglasses with brown gradient lenses, three-quarter view, with gold chain and two raw blue quartz stones

The Menton

LE 4,999.00
Sale price  LE 4,999.00 Regular price 

One of one. A square frame in a warm, rosy gold, drawn thin at the rim and softened at the corners so the shape sits easy on the face. Brown lenses shade from deep chocolate at the brow to pale amber at the cheek. Where temples would be, a gold chain runs down to two raw blue quartz stones, each hand-set in a gold-dipped cap.

The Frame

Gold-tone metal square with a slim full rim and a fine bridge, the gold leaning warm and rose. Temple-less: the chain is the temple.

The Lens

Brown gradient polycarbonate lenses: lightweight, shatterproof, UV400. Rich at the top, open at the bottom, so the world stays warm without going dim.

The Chain

18K gold-plated box chain, running from the outer corners to hang loose and to lift the glasses off in one quiet movement.

The Stone

Two natural blue quartz stones, pale as sea glass and left raw, hand-set in 18K gold-plated caps. Each stone keeps its own shape, so the pair can never be repeated. This is the only Menton.

Designed in Egypt.

AS WORN

The Menton, 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 Menton

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 Menton

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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