The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2022 - Issue 31

bitedesignerprofile Helena aims to “design jewellery as art to be worn throughout life.” She sees jewellery as a form of sculpture, expertly crafted by hand, with each piece expressive and full of emotion. “I love the timid sculpture part of it,” she told LZF Lamps . She uses a lost wax casting tech- nique that she carves and shapes in hard wax. “The wax is melted within a mould, creating a hollow where the metal is cast.” She then adds other materials to form an object that can be worn. The limited-edition Magna collection, unique- ly made from a deluxe kit, includes Saul, a large tabletop magnifier and Lin, a small pendant magnifier. These magnifying glasses alterna- tively mix the soft pastel tones with sheets of wood to create great beauty. The high-pressure laminate derived from translucent paper gives the frame a velvety finish in beautiful pastel spring tones, layered over the birch plywood base to characterise the Nina Mûr aesthetics. The five eyewear styles consist of Bela, Lucas, Marni, Nilia and Carol in blue, green, grey, pink, white or yellow mist with varied shaped round frames and frame edges. They are all designed with optic lenses that have anti-re- flective coating, transparent nosepads, rounded transparent tips, and trans- lucent silver frontal line temples. Each pair provides a retro look modernised with high technology and craftsman- ship, and enhanced with delicacy and strength. Other iconic eyewear designs by Nina Mûr include the Cuántica collection inspired by the microcosm that reveals quantum physics and its particular laws governing this invisible world. The unisex micro-glasses are created with sustainable materials never used in the optical world and are character- ised by the unique construction and colour scheme. Cuántica is available in Ellipse, Hexagon, Rectangle and Rhombus with transparent nosepads and metallic or soft matter titanium temples. The Japan collection is “a tribute to the Japanese sense of aesthetics and crafts- manship.” It's an ode to the subtle, bal- anced, rigorous design and construc- tion that introduces new materials and techniques such as frontside cutting, upstanding each piece to a new con- cept of sophistication, comfort and lightness. Here you will find Haruka, Ikki, Kazuma, Maiko, Takeo and Yu- taka eyeglasses in Ancient Red, Blue Wave, Deep Green and Pure Cacao hues with soft matt metal BTT temples. Deseraiki pays homage to deconstruc- tivism, and the maximum exponent of this movement is found at the Gug- genheim Museum Bilbao in Basque Country, Spain. The eyewear collec- tion consisting of models Mikel and Izorne in three versions, Basic, Icon and XNUMX, are marked by construc- tive nuances, textures and materials of metal. Pioneers Frank O. Gehry, Dan- iel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Peter Eisenman are the influencers who fo- cused on the freedom of shape in their work. Nina Mûr Eyewear can be found on- line and at stockists globally, includ- ing Ribas Òptics in Barcelona, Spain; Alohe Óptica in Madrid, Spain; Ham- monds Eye Practice in London, Unit- ed Kingdom; Optique Des Carmes in Limoges, France; Ottificio in Latino Lazio, Italy. www.ninamur.com Images courtesy of Nina Mür