DAMASCENO aluminium eyewear seen from the front on black leather, a beam of light on the chequered bridge

Since 2005, more than fifty thousand original vintage frames sold. None of them was made by me.This one was.

Aluminium frame on wood, temples open, stepped rims and exposed screws
7075 aluminium. Machined, then finished and assembled by hand.

Edition 01 marked ten years in eyewear.Edition 02 marks twenty.

LANGHORNE 02

Pennsylvania, June 12, 1926. A one-mile dirt track, almost a perfect circle. It became known as the Big Left Turn, a left-hand corner that never ended.

From 1935 to 1956 it hosted AMA national championship motorcycle races. The last race ran in 1971. The track is gone.

The track, a circle, like the lenses. The flag, chequered, like the bridge.

Rider in a vintage silver full-face helmet wearing the DAMASCENO aluminium eyewear

Before eyewear, the metal went into motorcycles. One-off parts, machined to order for custom garages in São Paulo.

Machined aluminium speedometer plate with circular cut-outs V-shaped aluminium headlight bracket seen through the fairing screen Knurled tool holder with end mill Finned and knurled aluminium fuel cap held in hand Aluminium block in a vice with a hacksaw, on the workbench Handmade aluminium tattoo machine on black leather

Speedo mount. Headlight bracket. Tool holder. Fuel cap. Aluminium block in the vice. Tattoo machine.

Alessandro Damasceno standing behind his café racer, in front of an old house

Alessandro Damasceno · São Paulo, Brazil

Raised among factories and machines.

Close-up of the aluminium rim, exposed screws and the raised chequered bridge
Eighteen screws. Concealed hinge.

Built one at a time, to order.Lens tint is your call.

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