Bayria Celebrates Bauhaus
The Bayria Bauhaus collection is a tribute to the dreamlike vision and irreverent creativity of modernist artists, demonstrating how art and design can still influence fashion today in surprising ways.
Bayria Eyewear, known since its inception for art applied to the highest Italian craftsmanship, reflects in its latest eyewear collection the colors, shapes, and vision of the movement that gave rise to the works of Kandinsky, Klee, Van der Rohe, and Breuer.
Their new collection innovatively reinterprets the use of color and shape through chromatic combinations and decorative patterns that play with the materiality of acetate. The acetate is molded into jagged fronts and transparency effects that reveal the metal core of the eyewear.
The Bauhaus, one of the main movements of the 20th century in architecture, art, and design, began as a school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. It promoted the idea that every object, from architecture to everyday tools, should balance form and function while adapting to industrial production. Its mission was to overcome the divide between fine and applied arts, creating a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) and uniting artists and craftsmen in a new community without social barriers.
Today, the Bauhaus legacy continues to influence modern aesthetics.
Bayria Eyewear // Bauhaus Collection // Model Ravennas
The frame reflects Kandinsky’s visual exploration, transforming an everyday accessory into an aesthetic statement. The extra-large model with pronounced, well-defined angles and an enveloping design is lightened by a delicate and thin nose bridge, balancing the boldness of the lenses and temples. The mottled acetate overlays multicolored tones on a transparent base, creating a dynamic and unique visual effect.
Bayria Eyewear // Bauhaus Collection // Model Stabiae
Hexagonal frame with jagged front achieved through a wave pattern in the acetate, which becomes transparent in the temples, revealing the metal core.
The new frames indeed reflect Kandinsky’s visual exploration, transforming a daily accessory into an aesthetic statement, creating a visual language that communicates directly with the soul. Extra-large models with pronounced, well-defined angles and an enveloping design are lightened by a delicate and thin nose bridge, balancing the boldness of the lenses and temples. The mottled acetate overlays shades of blue, brown, and yellow on a transparent base, creating a dynamic and unique visual effect. The color combination evokes a sense of movement and fluidity, recalling abstract art.
Bayria Eyewear // Bauhaus Collection // Model Varisium
Teardrop-shaped model with slightly rounded angles and a wave-patterned front that gives the frame a constant sense of movement. Bayria Eyewear plays with linear geometries animated by ethereal textures and distinctive details such as the thin, linear, gold double bridge that crosses the top of the frame. The temples reveal a metal core, further enhancing the aesthetic of the eyewear.
The wave pattern in the acetate is the unifying theme of this collection, which also includes statement aesthetic models like the hexagonal frame with a jagged front and an irregular round shape unique in its kind, with octagonal wave-shaped lenses and a violin-shaped temple reminiscent of Breuer’s creativity and his ability to transform industrial materials into elegant and functional design objects enriched with unique details.
Bayria Eyewear // Bauhaus Collection // Model Tres Moles
A unique irregular round model with octagonal wave-shaped lenses and a violin-shaped temple that recalls Breuer’s creativity and his ability to transform industrial materials into elegant and functional design objects enriched with unique details. Photo Bayria Eyewear.
Bayria Eyewear // Model Cossyra
Diva-style eyewear with a sixties flair in optical white acetate, lightened by tricolor temples. The eyewear reflects Kandinsky’s visual exploration, transforming a daily accessory into an aesthetic statement.
About Bayria Eyewear
Bayria, as the name of the city of Bari in ancient times. A city nicknamed "the gateway to the East", where the Art Nouveau style mixes with oriental influences, interrupted by Baroque touches along with a cosmopolitan and underground style. These realities have always coexisted in Bari: avant-garde and tradition, research and style together with craftsmanship.
Bari is a city that at the end of the 19th century saw the rage of the Art Nouveau style: these were the years in which Italy was experiencing its cultural revolution, trying to educate the masses through art and the taste for beauty, and in which there was a tendency to give free rein to craftsmanship, contrasting them with mass production.
It is precisely this mix of extremely connotating influences that the Bayria collection brings to eyewear. The series of glasses is a real tribute to the Apulian Art Noveau, in which Baroque and oriental influences converge.
Small characterizing details that are perfectly integrated in a contemporary language, with essential lines, in which traditional techniques and advanced technologies meet. The new and the old come together in a collection with a sophisticated taste.
Bayria features frames in elegant and refined shades, such as ocher, ruby red, petrol green and bottle green. And then black, essential and rigorous, the maximum expression of timeless elegance.
Unconventional frames, on which master craftsmen have been able to reproduce visual games through small engravings that create the optical effect of one frame in the other, a light and versatile style. And again, “frame in frame” workings and carvings on the front that bring to mind the bezel of a watch. The Bairya collection is inspired by the art that has made Made in Italy great in the world. That art is capable of contaminating any aspect of lifestyle: from painting, to architecture, to ceramics, to design.
Made with sheets produced by Mazzucchelli 1849, a leading company in Italy in the production of quality acetate, the glasses require a long process to produce a real design object. It takes 48 steps to get a frame. From the synthesis of cotton and cellulose pulp, 8mm acetate slabs are created, from which the front is extrapolated. Each frame is then decorated by hand. For this reason, each piece has differences in color and tone that make them unique.
A unique collection, in which comfort and research blend with history, with the Arabian reminiscences of Liberty decorations, with the gracefulness of the East and the decorative richness of the Baroque. Sacred and profane, ancient and modern, history and future. All this is Bayria.
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