At the beginning it was Andy Warhol, with his transparent frames, who gave his completely naked, amazed and curious gaze to the history of contemporary art. An accessory so neutral that one would never have expected to find on the face of the father of Pop art. In reality, material has always aspired to become immaterial, trying to blend in with the skin, fitting perfectly to the body until it becomes an almost invisible layer, to present ambiguous and sensual messages. Another skin, another look.

Often, aesthetic research was also accompanied by a technological challenge that favoured a sort of osmosis, by overcoming the limits of the material. Far from being minimalist, the new glasses therefore tell stories that are directly connected to emotions and a different way of living, of looking. Of being authentic and natural thanks to non-colour colours. And above all they express the desire not to hide anymore, to manifest their own, intimate essence.

Freeing the gaze. Christian Roth dismisses this trend in models that, at times, speak a strong and angular language, as with the Droner frame (in the opening photo), a manifesto of a decisive and inclusive style. At other times he explores an exclusively feminine lexicon by coming back to vintage shapes, such as the cat-eye. The common thread is a chromatic colour scheme that ranges from the faintest tones to the boldest, without forgetting the sensory aspect, the touch, with satin or glossy finishes that soften or enhance the sculpted lines.

In addition to colours, it is light that becomes a fundamental element for Kuboraum in the construction of glasses, interacting in a spectacular way in the T6 Mask, which is part of the new 10th Anniversary collection of the Berlin company. Reinterpreting the technique used during the Romanesque and Early Gothic periods to create the stained glass windows of the churches, Kuboraum has in fact created mosaic-like lenses of different shades inserted in an oversized frame, thus encouraging sophisticated and delicate plays of light.