Jean Lempereur woodline aviator rosewood sunglasses fade lenses, NOS 1980s Handmade France

Jean Lempereur Woodline Aviator shaped sunglasses with light brown degrade lenses made in France in natural rosewood or black color with grey fade lenses. New old stock hand made in France in the 1980s. Early wooden frames, rare and made to the highest quality standards in a multilayered wood with flexible spring brass hinges to make them fit perfectly. Nowadays it is common, and some years ago even trendy, to wear (and make) wooden shades, but back in time, making frames in wood was just the prerogative of a few artisanal, high-end luxury brands. While today they mostly use bamboo, at the time just rosewood, ebony, teak and bubinga were the woods of choice (and still are for serious wooden frames) for their lightness and strength. Measurements in cm Overall 13.7 Lenses. 5.5 Temples 13.5