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SPECTACLES
sunglasses
Alain Mikli International
Europe: France, Paris
2005
plastic; metal; cloth
DBL: 16 mm; case: 37 mm x 160 mm x 60 mm; cloth: 99 mm x 176 mm; eye: 52 mm; side: 135 mm
Children's sunglasses for blind people. Black and crystal laminate plastic front. Narrow, slightly bowed pad bridge. Offset metal lugs, attached to front with twin screws, with centre joints leading to black metal tapering sides with black and crystal laminate plastic end covers with distinctive swan's head ends. Each side picked out with the Mikli logo in braille relief. Rectangular eye rims glazed with dark grey tinted sun lenses. Together with a light grey microfibre lens cleaning cloth bearing the Mikli Touch logo picked out in red, including braille dots. Contained within light grey side-opening fabric spectacles case with zip fastener and logo in red relief on lid, with braille version of the same on the underside. Also a braille inscription on the zip pull.
2016.249
Gift of Ms Joan Grady, 2014