Develop a reputation in this handsome update of the Panto spectacles John Sturges wore throughout the 1960s, when The Magnificent Seven and Bad Day at Black Rock helped establish the director as one of the consummate craftsmen of the American widescreen.
Learned in manner and louche in effect, the STURGES features deep rounded lenses, set beneath an angular brow and surrounded with ample volumes of polished acetate. High-set temples extend the silhouette with sculptural authority, with crisp bevels cutting sharp planes through the frame’s substantial profile and catching light along the edges.
Sturges’s pictures belonged to a world of hard light, boundless horizons, and figures held against the immense scale of the American West. The STURGES returns to that same territory with considerably more polish, carrying the cultivated ease of his signature eyewear into a bold midcentury composition with enough breadth and brio to command the view.
Sturges
COLOR: HICKORY
YEAR: SUMMER 2020
EDITION: 23/400
FRAME STAMP: JMMST-1D
HANDCRAFTED IN JAPAN
Develop a reputation in this handsome update of the Panto spectacles John Sturges wore throughout the 1960s, when The Magnificent Seven and Bad Day at Black Rock helped establish the director as one of the consummate craftsmen of the American widescreen.
Learned in manner and louche in effect, the STURGES features deep rounded lenses, set beneath an angular brow and surrounded with ample volumes of polished acetate. High-set temples extend the silhouette with sculptural authority, with crisp bevels cutting sharp planes through the frame’s substantial profile and catching light along the edges.
Sturges’s pictures belonged to a world of hard light, boundless horizons, and figures held against the immense scale of the American West. The STURGES returns to that same territory with considerably more polish, carrying the cultivated ease of his signature eyewear into a bold midcentury composition with enough breadth and brio to command the view.
An edgy, modified Panto silhouette composed of a 10mm cured cellulose acetate frame in Black, with double-laminated temples composed of Clear exteriors and Black interiors, complemented by Armorlite 4-base lenses in Highland; equipped with signature arrowhead front-pins in Sterling Silver, exposed ‘Original’ wirecores, custom 7-barrel hinges, and spur-shaped rivet heads finished in Silver Palladium, and inner-temple hallmarks foil-stamped in Silver.
Measurements
Size: MEDIUM
Temple Length: 144
Frame Total Width: 148
Lens Width: 41
Lens Height: 50
Bridge: 23
Composition
10MM CURED CELLULOSE ACETATE FRAME IN BLACK, WITH DOUBLE-LAMINATED TEMPLES COMPOSED OF CLEAR EXTERIORS, AND BLACK INTERIORS, COMPLEMENTED BY ARMORLITE 4-BASE LENSES IN HIGHLAND WITH BACKSIDE ANTI-REFLECTIVE TREATMENT
SIGNATURE ARROWHEAD FRONT-PINS IN SILVER PALLADIUM
EXPOSED 'ORIGINAL' WIRECORES FINISHED IN SILVER PALLADIUM
CUSTOM 7-BARREL HINGES FINISHED IN SILVER PALLADIUM
SPUR-SHAPED RIVETS FINISHED IN SILVER
INNER-TEMPLE HALLMARKS FOIL-STAMPED IN SILVER
Italian-handcrafted hard leather case
Microfiber cleaning cloth/pocket square
Hard-shell, silk fabric-covered packaging