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A woman in an orange hood wearing rectangular orange VAVA sunglasses, close-up portrait

Eyewear from Porto, made in Italy

About the brand

A Portuguese house from Porto, founded by the designer Pedro Passos da Silva. The shapes are reduced to essentials - rectangle, circle, line - after the Bauhaus and artists such as Sol LeWitt, Malevich and Josef Albers. The frames are made in family-owned factories in the Treviso area of Italy.

Origin
Portugal
Material
Acetate · metal
Runs
Permanent collections

After the Bauhaus

The house refers to the Bauhaus and to artists who worked with basic shapes: Sol LeWitt, Malevich and Josef Albers.

Design and the shop are in Porto.

Where they are made

Although VAVA is a Portuguese house, the frames are made in Italy, in family-owned factories in the Treviso area.

Suzanne Ciani at her modular synthesizer, wearing green rectangular VAVA glasses
Suzanne Ciani at her modular synthesizer, wearing purple rectangular VAVA glasses