Elitropia

"Elitropia"

From Greek: elios "sun" trepein"to turn", is a variety of prase (a translucent, greenish variety of chalcedony) considered to hold legendary powers such as reflecting the sun light or granting invisibility. Such properties are what are somehow demanded from a pair of sunglasses: to reverberate the dazzling cone of light and to hide our inner gaze from people around us.

In 1350 Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the novel "Calandrino e l'elitropia" in which three friends go on to the banks of river Mugnone to look for that stone.                                  The place in Florence where this scene took place has been later entitled to Giovanni Boccaccio (and the small streets surrounding it, to Calandrino and his friends) which is also the very street where Peplord was born. 

Handmade  with ethically sourced buffalo horn; each piece is unique and shows the inimitable characteristic of light refraction of natural horn.

Made to order: order will be processed the first working day after purchase and shipped within a month. They come with two leather cases