Spacing between the many color variations of the acetate crystal, Piero Massaro has created a glasses collection of kaleidoscopic transparencies whose persuasive power of evocation certainly refers to his native Sicily, vital and essential element of his creations, to his cool “granite”, to his colored citrus fruit, to his white salt flats. By overlapping also...
If the previous collection of Piero Massaro was simply inspired by the works of Wilmer Herrison, the new one is totally pervaded with it: in fact, the “Optics Fusions” of the young Venezuelan artist, creator of an original painting technique, are faithfully reproduced in the acetate of glasses, with a really surprising and striking result. His...
The sense of sight and the sense of touch go hand-in-hand, says designer Piero Massaro. He has created this collection with the intent to make glasses an occasion for multi-sensory experience. It’s hard to keep from stroking the acetate surface “scratched” to create a geometric cross-pattern, exciting to the touch. This “scratched” handiwork takes us...
Faithful to his vocation as an islander, with this collection, Sicilian stylist Piero Massaro has succumbed to the infectious variety of Giudecca, an island which has always been considered an integral part of Venice. Inspired above all by the famous Stucky Mill, which has become a symbol of the island, and by the tiny shipyards...
In embracing an esthetic perspective that dares to challenge common-place standards, Piero Massaro presents a collection in which eyewear becomes an extension of nature, continually evolving in form and color: a flower blooms, the sun sets, clouds chase after one another. The designer invites us to stop and contemplate the spectacle offered each day by...
For his new eyes wear collection “Mosaic”, Piero Massaro, deeply connected to his origins, has drawn inspiration from his native Sicily. More specifically he’s been inspired by the Duomo of Monreale, where some beautifull Byzantine mosaics are to be found and also by Piazza Armerina, the city of mosaics par excellence. It’s as if Piero...
This new collection by designer Piero Massaro is inspired by the Mediterranean, the sea facing the land of his birth, Sicily; the sea: a perennial element in his creations. Fascinated by the sea floor and by the rich fauna populating it, the designer has striven to develop his new collection by evoking the movement and...
A new, amazing proposal from designer Piero Massaro for this collection that somehow takes him back to his roots: the clothing. Being conceived as a complete outfit, each model sports its pieces as if they were items and accessories: the colours of a temple match the ones of the front body which, in turn, match...
The inspiration of this new Piero Massaro’s collection arises over the pages of a book: what moves the hands of the designer are the round profiles, the sinuous “free, sensual curves” of Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazilian architectures. A collection in which the new shapes hold and reveal reassuring roundness, and the acetates inspire admiration for their...
To inspire Piero Massaro in this new glasses’ collection is “A journey along the coffee trail”, a sequence of pictures taken by US photographer Steve McCurry , widely known for the iconic, award-winning portrait of the expressive Afghan Girl. A photographic exhibition covering thirty years of shots he took in several world countries as Brasil, Ethiopia,...