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Miniature spectacles
MISCELLANEOUS
novelty; jewellery
ic! berlin
Europe: Germany, Berlin
2013
aluminium; plastic
eye: 18 mm; overall: 16 mm x 52 mm; side: 61 mm

Pair of miniature designer spectacles intended (in conjunction with its container) as a three-dimensional business card. Sheet aluminium frame, undecorated. Aviator style featuring slightly bowed fenestrated browbar bridge. Fenestrated patent hingeless joint. Flat-section sides with very shallow drop-ends. Unglazed. Together, as supplied, with a clear plastic two-part cylindrical case, also containing a product information sheet illustrated with nine cartoon images recounting a story in which ordinarily-sized spectacles are shrunk in a washing machine, hung out to dry and then, in shrunken state, dispensed to a hamster, worn as a lapel badge or used as a key fob.

2013.163

Gift of Herr Ralph Anderl, ic! berlin, 2013