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Category Museum Boxes
Nouvelle Chicane is working with copper tubing, brass rod, stainless steel, stainless braided cable and titanium. The material combinations are limitless as is our imagination.
Presently, copper provides us the most interesting design space. We polish it to a gleaming shine for some frames, but for others we will encourage a patina. This invokes an accelerated oxidation technique we developed in our studio. The patina gives a beautiful greenish blue color and granular texture detail. This is just a taste of the interesting projects we are undertaking at Nouvelle Chicane. see the Forte Visiera Patina for our latest piece,
Look for these and other special pieces at Charlotte Jones NYC in midtown
When it comes to fashion, we tend to celebrate male designers. Whether it’s Claudia Schiffer crediting Karl Lagerfeld for her success, Thierry …
The Costume Institute’s ‘Women Dressing Women’ Exhibit Is Long Overdue But Also Lacking
NYC: December 9th, 2023
Nouvelle Chicane Inspirations:
Friday night December 9th, Nouvelle Chicane Eyewear visited the new exhibition at the MET museum on 5th Ave entitled Women Dressing Women. The exhibition was assembled by the famous and revered Costume Institute and its benefactor, the annual MET Gala
The exhibit includes dress designs from 1910 through today, including designers from Europe such as Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Madeleine Vionnet, and American houses such as Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, Iris van Herpen, Rei Kawakubo, Anifa Mvuemba, and Simone Rocha.
The challenge: “find the ideal pairings between the finest dress at the exhibition and a Nouvelle Chicane frame from our latest collection.
More to come……
The result :
Betsey Johnson #betseysgirls
Worn by “Baby Jane” Holzer an #AndyWarhol favorite.
For the latest collection see Charlotte Jones Opticians on 509 9th Ave. and 38th street in midtown Manhattan
More of #BetseyJohnson
DECEMBER 7, 2023 Brooklyn NYC: Nouvelle Chicane travelled from midtown (M to F train) to York St Station in DUMBO to visit the A.I.R. Gallery. Tomoko Amaki Abe had some interesting pieces on show that used light and dark moving projections. These were the most inspiring of the evening. The monochrome structures have similarities with what we use in our Forte frame.
More inspiration from the Dumbo first Thursday on December 7
Right under the Manhattan Bridge we saw this road cone inspired Christmas tree.
Nouvelle Chicane had a problem; the MET Museum had the inspiration for our solution. A beautiful eyeglass case was the result.
Nouvell Chicane artistic frames are large and bold and do not fit standard carrying cases. Special ordered cases from the far east were an option, but we decided to go a different route.
It all started with a day trip to The MET museum on 5th Avenue and 81st Street. The MET is home to countless artifacts from 1000s of years ago.
It quickly became clear that boxes, trunks and containers hold a special place in the history of the world and particularly meaningful to the owners. Even today, iconic brands such as Louis Vuitton pride themselves on their history of boxe and trunk construction. Carefully crafted small containers held everything from snuff to cigarettes, to jewelry, to makeup, to paints and brushes, and even funeral ashes. Opulent carefully constructed boxes and cases were and are held in high regard. One of the purest examples is the Faberge Egg which contains a prized hen in its yolk and ultimately the Russian crown. Nouvelle Chicane Eyewear will be protected by the case shell in the same way as the enamel shell of the Faberge Egg.
It was clear that the Nouvelle Chicane box must be constructed from a precious metal such as copper or stainless steel. The case takes form of a 9 inch x 4 inch box with a snug fitting lid. They are hand cut with shears from 14 gage stainless steel or copper. The template is form bent on a sheet metal brake in our studio. The corners tabs are then drilled and pop riveted using an aircraft rivet forming tool to secure and strengthen the joints.
The cases are then carefully lined with colorful felt from the NYC garment district. The external metal surfaces are polished with fine abrasives and home crafted pastes to achieve a jewelry like finish. For a final touch, we etch the logo into the lid of our case as you can see here in our etching video.
These cases are available to our exclusive clientele at Charlotte Jones Opticians
MET Museum Inspirational and Beautiful Boxes
