Jean-François Rey is part of a claimed historical know-how in reference to contemporary architecture that he questions and sublimates for minimalist dazzling.
Conbining Metal and Colour
Coloured metal has always been part of JF Rey’s story, part of his DNA. Explored in compositions that are always surprisingly inventive, the metal tells an idea, a story that sets collections apart season after season and allows Jean-François Rey to express the full extent of his know-how. Keeping the imagination alive and taking everyone by surprise is the goal he achieves in particular through the use of bold colours and incredibly architectural constructions.
An easily identifiable graphic power and visual strength come from the collection while challenging and characterizing the minimalist spirit of the frames. His very personal way of shaping metal and structuring lines or volumes opens up new perspectives in creation and allows the designer to offer innovative and modern alternatives.
A delicate assembly of cutouts metal pieces and selective colors on the top that subtly reveal the beauty of the design and the aerial elegance. The creative proposition comes with a very detailed work on the assembly of the top while focusing on colorful graphics contrasts, stylistic effects and refined aesthetic. The strength of minimalism in assertive design.
The line OPPOSITE comes in a both sober and striking modernity. It proposes semi-rimmed designs standing out for their innovative architectural conception. The design features a perfectly mastering deconstruction of the front which plays with bold geometric shapes, audacious styling contrasts and all the different colors and subtle hues options. Expressive eyewear in pure minimalistic design, artistic expression, extreme fineness and lightweight.
JF Rey MIDO21- Simple minimalistic but decisive designs
This new collection introduces the idea of a committed vision in elegant and frankly assertive minimalism. It is driven by a desire for lightness, optimism, bold colours and creative, striking silhouettes. Nylor frames, semi-rimmed, or full-metal, the collection is as captivating as it is unexpected. It offers a wide variety of shapes and styles enhanced by new graphic combinations and ever ingenious designs.
Clean lines, graphic cutouts, architectural constructions or airy volumes are carefully considered in order to obtain the most beautiful graphic effect, the most surprising combination. The sleek aesthetic of the frames conceals an extremely complex work, which require much technicality combined with a search for geometric shapes and colour charts that bring the models their exclusive identity.
This steel-aluminum concept presents a new captivating experiment in lightness and contemporary minimalism. Its assertive look is expressed in the original design of the front which consists of the assembly of a coloured aluminum piece on the top of the frames. Highlighted eyebrows, the silhouette highlights the richness of the graphic combination, contrasts of volumes, thicknesses and colours. Smallest details, in particular the thin and distinctive hinge singularize the models.
Steel, stainless steel, aluminum or titanium, the French designer highly considers the origin of the materials, striving to be always more selective in order to create light, fine and resistant eyewear. He favors shaping of his frames in the workshops of the Jura, with a colorization by hand and thus shows off the French manufacture of his newest collection.
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