A very special place
We work in Agordo, a little town in the heart of the Italian Alps, as wonderful as our eyewear.
We are lucky to live and work in a delightful, almost magical place. Mountain lakes, centuries-old woodland, Alpine streams, towering over us the glorious Dolomites, a mountain landscape in its purest form. We couldn’t stop at just gazing at these wonders of nature, rather we let them be our inspiration, making sure all the eyewear we produce embodies these wonders. It would be utterly pointless to live in such a magnificent place and then betray it by making something mediocre.
A rite of passage
A Blackfin frame is the result of hundreds of processes, to some these would just be the production process, but for us each one is a little ritual.
We are Italian and everything we create is conceived and produced in Italy. Even that’s not enough for us. A Blackfin model is unique because of how it is made; each one is the fruit of the technical expertise and the creative vocation of generations of men and women dedicated to producing a work of art. People we are still meeting and whom we can thank with all our heart for everything they do but, above all, for the wonderful way they do it.
Pure titanium
Each frame is made only of Japanese titanium, but it is worked entirely in Italy.
We have been working with this amazing metal for decades, making it difficult, if not downright impossible to find anyone who does it better than us or who simply knows it better than we do. This is why we go all the way to Japan to buy the best batches of raw titanium from certified producers, guaranteeing us the purest and most perfect raw material. It is this conscious choice that, better than anything else, demonstrates our desire to create top quality eyewear without letting ourselves be restrained by limits, obstacles or distance.
Complex simplicity
Design perfection is not achieved by accident: time, research and much hard work is needed.
If you want to create a superb product there are no shortcuts, there is only one road to take. A Blackfin model starts life as a concept, which then becomes a sketch, eventually being transformed into a prototype. On the way there are technical tests, colour-matching experiments and endless adjustments until we arrive at an object that is both technically and aesthetically superb. We only stop when the result of this long journey lives up to the original idea, and we feel our efforts have been rewarded.
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