Air Art Eyewear, a High Flying Brand!
It is our habit, at Generation Eyewear, to introduce you to brands that carry a strong identity and a unique story and the one we are about to present to you is truly going in this direction: Air Art Eyewear was born from the idea of finding a solution to the problem posed by the original loss of balance and discomfort due to the weight of prescription lenses. The goal is therefore to prevent the glasses from slipping on the nose and the optical performance to be, as a matter of fact, degraded.
AirArt is a French brand of high luxury eyewear and dedicated to men. The brand was designed for men looking for quality, innovation for progress, and a certain form of exclusivity. AirArt is for people who have a passion for planes, boats, beautiful machines, and objects with timeless design.
French Luxury
Production method
Each AirArt pair of glasses requires approximately 150 operations and about twenty hours of labor. Imagined by Frédéric Pons, designed in Paris and in France, Italy, and Switzerland, this unique concept calls on the most demanding craft skills and avant-garde technologies to reveal a rare quality and guaranteed for life. In addition to platinum, ceramic, and 21-carat gold, their collection uses world-exclusive DiamondBlack® technology, directly from aeronautics: the polished, satin-brushed, and hand-brushed metal parts are coated with diamond particles and graphite for unrivaled protection and a most refined and luxurious manly finish.
Frédéric Pons, founder and CEO of AirArt Eyewear is convinced that glasses are much more than a medical prosthesis. They are, according to him, emotional accessories or even real jewelry loaded with meaning that distinguish the unique personality of their owner. This is why AirArt offers services that allow one to maintain its frame like a jewel, or to customize functional pieces made of solid gold, or even set, in its Place Vendôme workshop in Paris.
The average price of glasses is 590 euros and their frames can be found within their optician partners.
Inspirations
AirArt draws its functional inspiration from principles that govern the balance of an airplane in flight. Schematically, the balance of a frame that greatly influences its comfort, can be compared to that of a plane stabilized in flight or a Roman balance equipped with a small mobile counterweight.
In February 2020, AirArt announces its partnership with Louis Vanel, a 29-year-old Frenchman and world aerobatic champion 2019. Louis, sharing and illustrating the brand's deep values: balance, daring, high standards, precision, and reliability will participate in their future product developments to decline our unique brand experience in the world.
Louis Vanel, aerobatic world champion in 2019 illustrates the brand's deep values: balance, bravery, high standards, precision and reliability
Know-how & Competitive advantages
THE FRAMES
Designed in Paris, the collection brings together some of the most cutting-edge and rare artisanal or industrial know-how, from France, Switzerland, or Italy, to give concrete form to an offer that is as luxurious as it is technical and innovative. Each of their glasses requires approximately 150 operations and around twenty hours of highly skilled labor.
AirArt, an individualized balance for exceptional comfort. AirArt frames have an optimized weight distribution that saves 25% of the weight supported by the nose and a system of adjustment of their center of gravity unique in the world and inspired by aeronautical engineering. This guarantees perfect stability whatever the optical lenses of the wearer might be, whose mass can be very variable, sometimes 4 times heavier from one lens to another depending on the required correction. As a result, the glasses no longer slip on the nose and the optical centering remains optimal for a perfectly precise vision.
Therefore, the frames preserve their initial longitudinal and lateral stability according to the actual weight of each corrective lens. The balance is easily maintained and precisely adjusted by the optician thanks to a variable-geometry system and moving masses with integrated design.
If the balance of the frame is corrupted, the wearing comfort is worse, the glasses will tend to dive forward, to slide on the nose. Beyond this drawback, the pupil is no longer aligned with the optical center of the lens, resulting in a degraded, blurred, or double quality of vision. This annoyance is all the more important with progressive lenses. Whatever the quality of the corrective lens used might be, the wearer will suffer from difficulties in reading correctly. His near vision will be impaired.
AirArt covers around 70% of prescription lenses sold on the global market. Whatever the optical prescription may be, AirArt improves the overall comfort of the equipment thanks to a frame that adapts to the corrective lenses of each wearer.
TECHNOLOGIES & MATERIALS USED
The pads of the AirArt frames are designed in nano-ceramic. Hypoallergenic and with a lifespan of at least 10 years, these self-adjusting pads provide high-level comfort and reliability. Translucent silicone pads are also delivered with each frame.
Unique in the eyewear industry, the DiamondBlack® technology has been developed for aeronautical or aerospace application needs outside the norm. In addition to a dark shade of the most subtle and virile, this high-tech treatment guarantees resistance to wear of the parts subjected to strong friction. Their metal glasses are thus coated with diamond and graphite particles. Diamond is the hardest known material.
DiamondBlack® technology guarantees unparalleled wearing resistance of parts subject to high friction.
AirArt Eyewear also uses ruthenium for metal frames. From the platinum family, ruthenium is a hard metal practically not affected by acids and unalterable in air and in water.
The Glasses
The 50 series LCS limited edition sunglasses are coated with Rhodium thanks to patented technology Dalloz, the French jeweler of solar lenses. Rhodium is the rarest metal on the planet. Only a few tonnes are extracted each year. Beyond its extremely refined deep color, Rhodium reveals exceptional physical properties: resistant, unalterable, and stainless.
Exceptional After-Sale Service
AirArt frames can be maintained, revised, or even restored in workshops located in the French Jura. The acetate is repolished and the metal revived for a shine and subtle play of lights. The fasteners and hinges are checked and corrected for exceptional longevity. Any used parts are replaced for lasting comfort. In case, a courtesy frame is available. In addition, the warranty is for life.
On request, the moving masses of the AirArt frames can be produced in solid yellow or white gold and beset with precious stones by the best jewelers in the world, Place Vendôme in Paris.
Final results
Once the AirArt model has been chosen by his client, the optician orders the prescription lenses required. Before fitting them and after their sizing, the optician expert weighs each glass using a jewelry scale provided by AirArt.
Using a simple matching grid, he can easily adjust each temple in a few minutes to obtain an individualized frame, in harmony with the prescription lenses.
Written by Adam