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SPECTACLES
sunglasses
Alain Mikli International
Europe: France, Paris
2005
plastic; metal; cloth
DBL: 14 mm; case: 37 mm x 160 mm x 60 mm; cloth: 177 mm x 98 mm; eye: 55 mm; side: 140 mm
Children's sunglasses for blind people. Black plastic frame. Narrow, slightly bowed pad bridge. Embedded centre joints leading to tapering drop-end sides with straight tips. Each side picked out with the Mikli logo in braille studs. Slightly upswept rectangular eye rims, with white metal studs along top of browline, glazed with dark grey tinted sun lenses. Together with a microfibre lens cleaning cloth bearing a colour photograph by Serge Leblon of two sunglass wearers shown above the Mikli Touch logo. Contained within light grey side-opening fabric spectacles case with zip fastener and logo in red relief on lid, with oblique flash on the underside and on the zip pull.
2016.250
Gift of Ms Joan Grady, 2014