Italian acetate
Mazzucchelli M49 sheets, vegetable-based, cut and rested four weeks before milling.
Spring volume · MMXXVI
Frames for the long way home.
Acetate and titanium eyewear, designed in Annecy and hand-finished in Cadore. CR-39 lenses, riveted hinges, a single screwdriver to repair them — built to be worn a decade.
The frames, in six.
Browse all →How we make a frame.
Each pair leaves the atelier after 22 hand-led steps. We sketch in Annecy, source acetate from Mazzucchelli, mill in Cadore, polish for nine days, then glaze your prescription in our partner lab. Nothing is rushed because nothing should be replaced soon.
Cadore atelier
Three CNC passes, then hand-relief on the temple curve. Riveted Optyl hinges, brass core.
Nine-day tumble
Frames tumble with maple chips, walnut, and beeswax for nine days — the depth you can feel.
Annecy lens lab
CR-39 or mineral, fitted in 5 working days. Hard coat, anti-reflective, blue cut on request.
The optical promise.
Four things we won't compromise — at the price, on the lens, in the box.
CR-39 lenses
Standard on every frame. Polarised on sun, anti-reflective on optical, hard coat included.
30-day try-on
Take a pair home, walk a month with it. If it doesn't fit your face, return it free.
Prescription in 5 days
Single vision or progressive, ground in our partner lab in Annecy, shipped to your door.
Lifetime repair
Bent temple, lost screw, scratched lens? Send the frame back — we fix or replace.
Five departments.
From every-day sun to limited artist drops — five small departments, run by people, not algorithms.
Wearer · three years in Oslo
"I bought the Oslo to replace a pair I'd had ten years. They survived two relocations, a kid pulling a temple off, and a North Sea storm. Irdae fixed all of it for free — and the frame looks better than the day it arrived."— Hélène · Lyon → Oslo
The atelier
Annecy lake, Cadore hands.
Irdae is run by Léa Marchand, an optometrist who spent eight years at Cubitts in London before returning to Annecy in 2019. Twelve people across two studios. Frames you can fit yourself — and a workshop above the lake where you're welcome to drop by.