The Sardinia - rimless square gold sunglasses with deep ink-blue lenses, three-quarter view, gold chain and two pale blue quartz stones

The Sardinia

LE 4,999.00
LE 4,999.00
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The Sardinia - rimless square gold sunglasses with deep ink-blue lenses, three-quarter view, gold chain and two pale blue quartz stones
  • The Sardinia - rimless square gold sunglasses with deep ink-blue lenses, three-quarter view, gold chain and two pale blue quartz stones
  • The Sardinia - top view of rimless square gold frame with dark ink-blue lenses and gold box chain
  • The Sardinia - front view of rimless square dark blue lenses on a slim gold bridge with chain draped below
  • The Sardinia - close-up of two raw pale blue quartz stones hand-set in gold caps on an 18K gold-plated box chain
  • The Sardinia - rimless square gold sunglasses with deep ink-blue lenses, three-quarter view, gold chain and two pale blue quartz stones
  • The Sardinia - top view of rimless square gold frame with dark ink-blue lenses and gold box chain
  • The Sardinia - front view of rimless square dark blue lenses on a slim gold bridge with chain draped below
  • The Sardinia - close-up of two raw pale blue quartz stones hand-set in gold caps on an 18K gold-plated box chain
The Sardinia

The Sardinia

LE 4,999.00
LE 4,999.00

One of one. A rimless square in gold, the lenses left open at the edges so the shape reads as pure line and shadow. Deep ink-blue lenses, dark all the way through, sit on a slim gold bridge with a small gold end piece at each outer corner. In place of temples, a gold chain runs down to two pale sky-blue quartz stones, each hand-set in a gold-dipped cap.

The Frame

Gold-tone metal rimless square: two squared lenses with softened corners, held by a fine bridge and a gold end piece at each side. Temple-less: the chain is the temple.

The Lens

Deep ink-blue solid polycarbonate lenses: lightweight, shatterproof, UV400. Dark and even from edge to edge, with the faintest blue cast when the sun hits them.

The Chain

18K gold-plated box chain, fine enough to disappear into a collar and heavy enough to hang straight when you lift the frame away.

The Stone

Two natural blue quartz stones, left raw and hand-set in 18K gold-plated caps. Pale and cloudy like shallow water over sand, each one faceted as it was found. This is the only Sardinia.

Designed in Egypt.

AS WORN

The Sardinia, 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 Sardinia

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 Sardinia

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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