Barton Perreira 2011 eyewear video - Get Some

Barton Perreira 's 2011 video features some great eyewear on display to another good soundtrack. Last year it was Wild Beasts (EWG's album of the year Two Dancers); this year Lykke Li's Get Some.

Barton Perreira's Sebastian eyeglasses

Here's Tim wearing some fantastic Sebastian spectacles by Barton Perreira. I think these are the Umber Tortoise colour but they may be Saxon Brown. Good look Tim!

Also available in Black, Dark Walnut, Dusk, and a Turtle Dove Gradient, as right.

Note how they're precariously balanced on another identical pair...

Who makes Colin Firth's glasses in A Single Man?

All I know is that Colin Firth's glasses in Tom Ford's A Single Man, are not Tom Ford Eyewear. Sunglasses Onstage suggests they're mid-20th-century vintage and I'd agree as the closest I've seen to these were in the top-notch quality vintage drawers at the Eye Company in Soho, London. It certainly provides spectacles for TV and film, so possibly?

But then Barton Perreira do something extremely similar with the Preston (right).

When I see the film, I will be the one disappointed at the end. I'll hang around to read all the credits, only to find the "Eyewear: " line non-existent. Seen it already? Let  me know if you know more.

UPDATE 28 Dec 2010

Well we got there in the end folks: the answer is a pair of Nalco #44 vintage 1960s frames like these right.

If you're dead quick you can buy them on eBay here.

I actually got round to watching the film a month ago and have been searching for a bow-tie-shaped rivet detail on a temple ever since. But today the eBay seller left a comment below and solved 2010's Eye Wear Glasses mystery... These are definitely them!

Barton Perreira 2010 eyeglasses ad campaign featuring Giovanni Ribisi

Avatar star Giovanni Ribisi stars in this 2010 campaign for the brilliant Barton Perreira optical collection. There's some great pieces including this beautiful, brown acetate...

And the music in the video? Wild Beasts, from perhaps my favourite album of 2009: Two Dancers

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