Bi-material frames
The Breton brand Koad makes glasses out of laminated wood, and also inserts a thin layer of fiberglass between layers. The fiberglass, invisible, weighs almost nothing and increases the strength of the frames.
Tree Spectacles, the Tyrolean brand, uses carbon in a similar way. The brand holds together the different sheets of wood with a fine carbon blade. Undetectable, it does not weigh down the wooden glasses, and makes them much stronger.
W-Eye mixes seven layers of wood and two layers of aluminum, both to reinforce the structure of his wooden glasses and to offer them an unusual lightness: each pair weighs only about 10 grams! Malleable, the frames are bent cold and their manufacture consumes very little energy. Don’t worry: once molded and treated (non-toxically), the frames do not deform.
© Koad
© Hakino
© W-Eye – MOD.204 frame
Discover the process of making Tree Spectacles in this video!