Eye size 55 mm · Made before 2020
Five-Wood Parquetry
An oversized, navigator-inspired square with the broad brow and generous proportions of the 1960s and ’70s. Across the front and temples, angular pieces of fumed oak, Italian ebony, walnut burl, ziricote and gray-dyed oak meet in changing grain directions—a small composition in wood.
The Moorea name began with an encounter during a SIRIS photography trip. A head tribesman on Moorea admired a frame and wanted to wear it. The founder gifted him the glasses, and named the shape after the island in remembrance of that exchange.
Five woods, five characters
Fumed oak brings darkened grain and a connection to the ammonia-fumed finishes associated with Arts and Crafts furniture. Italian ebony is SIRIS’s name for engineered, dyed poplar from Italy: honey and black striation chosen as an alternative to Macassar ebony.
Walnut burl brings irregular, intricate figure; eighteenth-century cabinetmakers also used walnut burl veneers, including a New England dressing table now at The Met. Ziricote, native to parts of Mexico, Central America and Cuba, adds its distinctive dark figuring. Gray oak is oak dyed gray, adding a cool counterpoint to the warmer woods.