Erker’s 1879 // An Iconic heritage

Annaliese is wearing Clayton, a sophisticated, yet playful acetate frame from the Transatlantic collection of Erker’s 1879. We love how the soft upsweep design emphasizes her feminine vibes, and the subtle emblems embedded into the temple tips, showing the New York airport code RFA and the Paris airport code LBG as a tribute to Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight.

This beautiful frame features a stainless-steel wire core and authentic rivets and is available in four colours, like Sea Foam, Burgundy, Champaign, Fatigue, and PK Tort.

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So what does Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight have to do with fine eyewear? For that, we have to go back to the year 1927, when our friends at Erker’s sold anything with a lens, including the goggles that Charles Lindbergh wore during the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. They are very proud to have made his goggles. This was their first international project and first time back in Europe since 1879 when their ancestors immigrated to the US from Germany.