Standing warm against the cold: Skylark wood-stone glasses from Rolf

I really do get excited about these glasses. I tried on a pair of Rolf's wooden specs with a stone finish in Paris last year and they really are incredibly comfortable: the wood makes them so light and then the stone has this dramatic cooling effect on your face. An incomparable piece of eyewear.

This is Skylark 41, winner of the Red Dot design award for 2012. Congrats to Rolf Spectacles...

Upward spiral: Monoqool wins Good Design award in Chicago

Danish spiral hinge afficionados at Monoqool have won another design award for its NXT Helix frame, above. The "Good Design"accolade, the seventh such award since Monoqool launched in March 2010, came from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

More on Monoqool's singularly cool frames here...

Lindberg's horn and titanium frame wins top tech prize at Silmo

Lindberg has a strong history of innovation so it's great to see it get the recognition it deserves with a Silmo d'Or in Paris. I had a good look at these Horn glasses in Paris and can confirm that the way the horn front fixes to the titanium sides is indeed clever stuff. And as these images testify, the join is far from clumsy. From the top: Lindberg 1801, 1802 and 1803.