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sunglasses
Europe: Italy
c.1985
metal; plastic; acrylic
DBL: 13 mm; eye: 60 mm; side: 135 cm
Sunglass frame suitable also for prescription use. Bright red-painted metal frame with short straight bridge and browbar. Front surface of bridge picked out in black and gold. Clear plastic pads attached separately to inner rims. Offset centre joints picked out in gold leading to flat-section drop-end sides with black acrylic end covers featuring block tips, each featuring the Ferrari rearing horse symbol in gold on the outer surface. Aviator-style eye rims with somewhat abrupt nasal angle, glazed with plano plastic lenses.
2015.304
Gift of General Eyewear via Fraser Laing, 2015