Fashion spectacles. Spectacular fashion. Eyewear styles and shapes from vintage to 2020
 Catalogue Number: 2146 Fashion spectacles. Spectacular fashion. Eyewear styles and shapes from vintage to 2020 Category: Book Sub-Category: Hewett collection Author: MURRAY Simon, ALBRECHTSEN Nicky Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2012 Time Period: 21st C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: China Publisher/Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson Description Of Item: Colour illustrated boards, 240 pages, 274 illustrations, 261 in colour. Title on protective clear plastic cover, 275 mm x 245 mm Historical Significance: A coffee table book, one of several recently published, reflecting new interest in spectacle frame fashion and design from an historical perspective (See Cat No 1095, 1099, 1447). The book has many excellent images as well as reproductions of advertisements and photographs of celebritiies. The text lightly discusses the desgn and manufacture of spectacle frames. The first chapter touches on the 19th C but the book is mostly about 20thC spectacles How Acquired: Purchased by Kett Museum (Abe books) Date Acquired: Jan 2013 Condition: Brand new but protective cover scratched Location: Nathan Library. Hewett collection |