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Oscar Mamooi

Sculptural acetate frames, hot-pressed into faceted, crystal-like volumes.

From
Venice (Mestre), Italy
Made in
Italy

Fit guide: Which Oscar Mamooi glasses fit you

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About Oscar Mamooi

Oscar Mamooi glasses are sculptural frames from an Italian eyewear brand based in Mestre, on the Venice mainland. Its fronts are hot-pressed from acetate into faceted, crystal-like volumes, and every frame we list is made in Italy.

The brand’s site presents a collection called Iceland, “starting from Nature as source of inspiration”, with “asymmetrical frames just like the unpredictability of icebergs yet smooth like ice”. So the outline is jagged and uneven, but the surface stays smooth.

Cat-eyes and a square

Most of our Oscar Mamooi frames are upswept cat-eyes; the Bachelorette is the square. Most of ours are acetate; the Paradisia pairs a titanium front with acetate brows, per its listing. An optician warms acetate to adjust it, and it holds the new shape once cool.

The models we hold

Each listing gives a model name and a colour number, written Col. and two digits. Innocence Col.01 and Col.04 are the same 50-17-145 front in different acetate; the number is the colour, not the size. The years and quotes below come from the brand’s own model pages.

  • Innocence (2023): “the silhouette follows the wingspan of a butterfly”.
  • Bachelorette (2023): “square, impactful and geometrically sculpted”, with “architectural elements”. Square, 49-19-145, in Col.02 Crystal / Burgundy.
  • Volta (2020): an “oversize design” with “crystalline and jagged shapes”. Cat-eye, 52-21-145, in Col.02 Milky White.
  • Immature (2020): “geometric volumes that reflect the majestic ice walls of Antarctica”. Cat-eye, 52-18-145, in Col.02 Lilac.
  • Joga (2022): “the mythological dream of Icarus’s flight”. Cat-eye, 48-19-145, in Col.03 Brown / Yellow / Clear.
  • Paradisia (2020): sinuous, enveloping lines, in our translation of the brand’s Italian. Cat-eye, 54-18-145, titanium and acetate, in Col.02 Red; it is also on our wide frames page.

We hold a single piece of each, so once a frame sells it is gone. Each ships as a frame, free and insured within the US with a signature on delivery, for your own optician to glaze. The Oscar Mamooi fit guide compares sizes by face; if you want to see a facet up close before deciding, ask us for more photographs.

Where are Oscar Mamooi glasses made?

In Italy. Each of our Oscar Mamooi listings says Made in Italy, and all of them are on our Made in Italy page. The brand’s own site gives its address in Mestre, on the Venice mainland.

Is Oscar Mamooi from Milan or Venice?

Venice. The brand’s own site gives its address in Mestre, on the Venice mainland (oscarmamooi.com). Its designer’s page there says that in his Milan years he worked for a long time as door selector at Plastic, the Milan club, and that he was self-taught before producing his first collection. We do not have a verified founding year for the brand, so we do not give one.

Why do Oscar Mamooi frames look faceted?

Because the acetate is pressed into shape. The brand says it uses advanced technologies such as hot pressing to form irregular, asymmetrical fronts (oscarmamooi.com/wp/en/oscar-mamooi/). Most of ours are acetate; the Paradisia pairs a titanium front with acetate brows, per its listing.

Do you sell Oscar Mamooi sunglasses?

We hold the brand’s optical frames only. The brand also makes sunglasses: its MIDO exhibitor profile lists plastic and metal sunglasses (mido.com/elenco-espositori/oscar-mamooi). For a sun lens in an optical frame, ask your optician about tinted lenses.

Are these Oscar Mamooi frames new?

Yes. Ours are new and unworn, with demo lenses fitted, and ship as a frame for your optician to glaze. Demo lenses are plain blanks that hold the rim’s shape until your optician replaces them.

Can I get prescription lenses in Oscar Mamooi frames?

Yes. We ship the frame, and your own optician fits the lenses, tracing the faceted outline from the frame itself. A full acetate rim hides a thicker lens edge; the Paradisia’s titanium front shows more of it. Our lens guide explains the options. We hold a single piece of each frame, so once it sells it is gone.

Oscar Mamooi at a glance

Oscar Mamooi is an Italian eyewear brand based in Mestre, on the Venice mainland. The brand says it uses hot pressing to give its collections their volumes, and its fronts take faceted, crystal-like shapes.

Nature is the starting point: the brand describes irregular shapes that recall the connection between man and nature. Some models combine materials, and the Paradisia, as listed here, pairs a thin titanium front with acetate brows.

Faceted black and red frame standing in rippled pink sand, no model

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Frames
7

All eyeglasses

Eye sizes
48–54 mm

The first number printed inside the left arm

Made from
Mostly acetate

Mostly cat-eye

A few of the Oscar Mamooi frames here

The Oscar Mamooi models here

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Model Colours Size Lens height Shape Material Fit
Bachelorette Crystal / Burgundy Col.02 49-19-145 37 Square Acetate Average
Immature Lilac Col.02 52-18-145 30 Cat-eye Acetate Average
Innocence Black Col.01 50-17-145 40 Cat-eye Acetate Average
Joga Brown / Yellow / Clear Col.03 48-19-145 39 Cat-eye Acetate Average
Paradisia Red Col.02 54-18-145 48 Cat-eye Acetate and titanium Wide
Volta Milky White Col.02 52-21-145 40 Cat-eye Acetate Average

Size is eye, bridge and temple in millimetres, as printed inside the arm; lens height is from each listing. Only frames in stock are listed: a colour that sells leaves the table, and so does a model when its last colour goes.

  1. Hot-pressed volumes

    The brand uses hot pressing to shape its fronts.

  2. Irregular shapes

    “Irregular shapes reminding the connection between man and nature.”

  3. Titanium and acetate

    Some models combine titanium fronts with acetate brows.

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