Silk, feathers and stone set in Italian acetate
Coco Song spectacles draw inspiration from the mystery of the Orient, using the finest materials in the world. Coco Song is an Italian house working in small numbered editions, each frame built around materials rarely seen in acetate: silk, feathers, dried flowers and semi-precious stone.
Silk, dried flowers, ostrich feathers, semi-precious stones, metal accents and enamel are laid between layers of acetate, so the decoration sits inside the material rather than on its surface and cannot rub away at the temple.
Today
It is the careful hands and expertise of an artisan master that make Coco Song eyewear. Indeed, the whole process takes a minimum of six months to perfect each frame. A magical blend of Italian design and oriental culture delivers an artistic masterpiece. Hand made unique masterpieces, produced in limited editions, and each piece is numbered. Above all, the result is an amazing product. Additionally, it combines precious materials. Namely, silks and natural ostrich feathers, semi-precious stones (granite, turquoise, eye of the tigers, jade), and real dried flowers.
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Each frame is hand made and unique, making it a masterpiece of craftsmanship and refinement.
Coco, meaning ‘ancient’ joins the name of the Song dynasty, founder of the city of Hong Kong in 976 AD”.
Coco Song combines the best that Italy and the Orient have to offer: Italy for design and the Orient for colors and textures.
Coco Song sunglasses
A sun frame made this way is built exactly as an optical one is: the same layered acetate, the same inclusions caught inside it, the same numbering on the temple. What changes is how the material reads. Against a tinted lens, the pale elements — feather, dried petal, silk thread — carry more contrast, and the stone and metal accents at the hinge catch the light rather than competing with the eye behind the lens.
Shapes with deeper rims and broader temples give the acetate more room to show what is suspended in it, which is why decorated frames of this kind are often drawn larger than a plain one would be. Sun lenses can be fitted to prescription in a frame of this shape as they would be in any other.
Why these materials have to be seen in person
No two frames with a flower or a feather inside them are the same, and a photograph flattens exactly the thing that makes them worth looking at: depth. The best way to choose a frame is to try it in person. Photos are useful for inspiration, but fit, proportion and comfort can only really be judged when you put a frame on.
Visio Optical is an independent, fitting-led boutique optician in Holland Village, Singapore. Frames are selected in small, considered quantities, chosen for how they fit and feel on a person rather than for how they look on a display.