The Ravello - thin gold square frame sunglasses with blue-grey gradient lenses and a gold box chain ending in two raw green quartz stones, three-quarter view

The Ravello

LE 4,999.00
LE 4,999.00
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The Ravello - thin gold square frame sunglasses with blue-grey gradient lenses and a gold box chain ending in two raw green quartz stones, three-quarter view
  • The Ravello - thin gold square frame sunglasses with blue-grey gradient lenses and a gold box chain ending in two raw green quartz stones, three-quarter view
  • The Ravello - top view of gold square frame sunglasses with blue-grey gradient lenses, gold chain draped to two green quartz stones
  • The Ravello - close-up of the thin gold rim and blue-grey gradient lens fading from slate blue to a pale haze
  • The Ravello - close-up of two raw sea-green quartz stones hand-set in gold-dipped caps on a gold box chain
  • The Ravello - thin gold square frame sunglasses with blue-grey gradient lenses and a gold box chain ending in two raw green quartz stones, three-quarter view
  • The Ravello - top view of gold square frame sunglasses with blue-grey gradient lenses, gold chain draped to two green quartz stones
  • The Ravello - close-up of the thin gold rim and blue-grey gradient lens fading from slate blue to a pale haze
  • The Ravello - close-up of two raw sea-green quartz stones hand-set in gold-dipped caps on a gold box chain
The Ravello

The Ravello

LE 4,999.00
LE 4,999.00

One of one. A square frame drawn in the thinnest line of gold, so fine the lens seems to hold itself in the air. The lenses shift from deep slate blue at the brow to a pale, sunlit haze at the cheek. Where temples would be, a gold chain runs from the corners of the frame to two raw sea-green quartz stones, each hand-set in a gold-dipped cap.

The Frame

Gold-tone metal square frame with a thin rim, slim bridge and clear nose pads. Temple-less: the chain is the temple.

The Lens

Blue-grey gradient polycarbonate lenses: lightweight, shatterproof, UV400. Cool and shaded above, open and soft below, made for long afternoons that turn into evenings.

The Chain

18K gold-plated box chain, fine enough to disappear against skin and heavy enough to hang straight when the glasses rest on the chest.

The Stone

Two natural green quartz stones, left raw and hand-set in 18K gold-plated caps. Each carries its own crackle and cloud, so the pair cannot be repeated. This is the only Ravello.

Designed in Egypt.

AS WORN

The Ravello, 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 Ravello

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 Ravello

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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