Bonocle Visiting Lunettes Brillenagentur

Lunettes Brillenagentur, Berlin

Photos by Merituuli Saario

Last weekend I visited the Lunettes Store at Torstrasse 172 in Berlin. What a beautiful boutique! They offer a huge collection of unworn vintage frames, both sun and ophthalmic. Besides that, they also have some handpicked brands (such as Clair Goldsmith, Moscot and Garrett Leight) and even more unique: their own line “Lunettes Kollektion” containing refined vintage shapes in interesting colors.

It’s a lovely story behind the lunettes shop. It all began with Uta Geyer. Uta was working as a scenery searching for vintage revisit for a theater when she came over the huge interest for vintage frames. Later on, she found such a beautiful (and cheap!) optometrists booth at eBay that she couldn’t resist to buy. One day, when sitting in a café she saw an empty boutique hall for rental… So all of a sudden she had an optometrists booth and a empty boutique just in front of her – this was a sign for the beginning of Lunettes Brillenagentur.

Vintage sunglasses on the 1st pic, Lunettes Collection on the 2nd pic. Round shape: Jeunesse Toujours in Miele & Olive; Caty shape:  Fräuleinwunder

… More lovely pictures to come, stay tuned!

Meet MOSCOT “Metal” // MIDO 2012

Me with the Moscot Team Harvey and Wendy, wearing Izzy and Mendel
Moscot Originals
MOSCOT Izzy, Gold Amber Lenses
MOSCOT Mendel, Gold 30% Violet Tinted Lenses
MOSCOT Zelda Matte Gold/Mauve

Meet the new line of the Moscot Originals – not only made of Metal but also inspired of Metal Music! Really cool, yet classic. My favorite is the one I’m wearing in the picture – Mendel in Gold with 30% Violet Tinted Lenses.

MIDO 2012

Mido was great! I had such a great time full of inspiration. I’ve been looking at the news from several brands and also photographing stylish people in Milan. Can’t wait to share everything with you guys!

Some favorites from the MIDO fair:
(More deep going posts and a lot of more pictures will soon be uploaded!) 

MYKITA "Joplin" (XXL version of the previous "Janis")
MOSCOT Metal Collection
Thierry Lasry
Barton Perreira in matte acetate
Leisure Society
Thierry Lasry

Golden Globe Awards 2012

I chose a few of the glasses at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards. We could see both bold, chunky and retro acetate frames as well as more subtle metal glasses.


Ty Burrell wearing Oliver Peoples Sheldrake in Black.


Bill Nighy nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role in “Page Eight”.


Steven Spielberg winning Best Animated Feature Film for “The Adventures Of Tintin”.


Martin Scorsese winning the category of Best Director – Motion Picture for “Hugo”.

Photos: Golden Globes


Meryl Streep got bleeped for cursing that she left her glasses on the table when she held her speech for winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture for her role in “Iron Lady”.


Johnny Depp in Moscot Lemtosh. Photo: Third Age


John Stamos in what I think is Oliver Peoples Ari in Black. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Photo from here.


Sir Elton John in the asymmetrical Alain Mikli AL0721. Photo from here.