1981/2
'Paua Sunglasses', frame 001, September 1981.
This was in response to an invitation to exhibit jewellery
('Paua Dreams' at Fingers in Auckland) using paua shell in a new and different way.
Found vintage brass spectacle frame, paua shell lenses, slits for vision.
'Paua Sunglasses', frame 002, October 1981.
The paua shell chip and resin ash tray was and still probably is, the
height of bad taste in New Zealand. Although I guess nowadays it's been
elevated to the realms of kiwiana kitsch. Paua shell chip and resin,
lenses, slits ...
'Paua Sunglasses', frame number 004, February 1982
Bronze frame, paua shell lenses, slits for visionOwner: Billie Taylor.
I was still not able to source optical parts in New Zealand.
Import laws meant that everyone was require to have an import licence for
certain amounts per year, I believe. So optical retailers were reluctant to
share their imported parts with me ...
'Venetians', frames 009 and 010, August 1982
These are my first pair of louvre sunglasses, made from brass sheet, homemade hinges ...
'Paua Sunglasses', frame 017, October 1982
Purchased by the Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. By '82 I had started to venture into
silver frames for paua lenses, still with sawn slits for reasonable vision. This style of frame
was easily applied to holding optical lenses ...
'Sunnies', frame 032, 1982
Brass cantilever frames, CR39 lenses
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1983
'Birdnose Brass Wraps', frame 039, January 1983
By now my louvre ideas became bird-like ...
'Digitals', frame 055, July 1983
With a watch module set in an aluminium frame, and stainless steel mesh lenses.
Owner: Dennis O'Neill...
'Mask', Frame 058, August 1983
Aluminium mask frame, slits, leather-lined, vintage spectacle temples...
'Paua Sunglasses', frame 047, April 1983
Sterling silver and paua shell. This was a useful cantilever design which allowed me
to use proper optical lenses in future variations ...
'Pop Rivet Wonders', frame 071, April 1983
Aluminium and stainless steel mesh ...
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1984-1993
'Ruth Baird prescription', frame 094, June 1984
sterling silver frames for Ruth that she wears to this day!
'Coconut Roughs', Frame 178, 1986
Coconut shell (wood), acrylic, and bound with linen thread.
'Looking Glasses', frame numbers 206 and 207, July 1989
Sterling silver prescription frames, with handmade hinges using the old trick of a
dual-purpose hinge/rimlock device...
'Schubert Impromtus', frame 232 and 233, October 1990
Sterling silver prescription frames, 39mm disc shape.
'Ghost of 1760', frame 261, 1991
500 silver wig glasses ...
'Ferns', frame 281, 1993
Castings in 950 silver of New Zealand tree fern fronds, your own personal sunshade
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'Tonto' design from 1984
'Tonto', frame 078, Feb 1984
Owner: Dennis O'Neill. Sterling silver sunglass frames, CR39 hard resin lenses, dyed dark purple ...
'Tonto', frame 079, Feb 1984
sterling silver sunglass frames, CR39 hard resin lenses, dyed deep purple ... ...
'Tonto for Walter', frame 080, March 1984
Owner: Walter Aoake. My good friend Walter asked me for a silver frame -
design that would really suit him. So he commissioned these. First he asked
me to put rear-vision mirrors on each side, but I declined. Then asked me
to sign the temple on the outside, like those fancy factory frames with
'designer's names' stamped there. So I did that. Sterling silver, CR39
lenses, dyed deep dark purple ...
'Hurst prescription', frame 085, April 1984
Owner: Michael Hurst. sterling silver prescription sunglasses, CR39 lenses, deep dark purple ...
'Tonto', frame 088, April 1984
sterling silver prescription sunglasses, CR39 lenses, tinted purple ...
'Tonto Today'
Silver 'Tonto' made to your specifications: $USpoa.
Sterling silver eyeglasses or sunglasses for prescription lenses.
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