During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the company began to produce cat eye glasses frames of its own, using aluminum with anodized coatings, engraving, crystals, and metal appliques quite similar to those made by Tura.Īrt-Craft was a leader in high quality plastic cat eye glasses frames at the same time, and never focused completely on aluminum. The company appeared in the final year of the First World War, and was headquartered for the next 83 years in the famous Pullman Building, itself a storied fixture of the town.

Dechau, continuing the long history of cross-fertilization between the American and German eyeglasses industries. Eagle, along with a German-American, Otto W. Appropriately in light of the avian symbol of the U.S.A., the founder of Art-Craft was one Charles J. of Rochester, New York was another American firm to successfully take up the banner of making aluminum cat eye prescription glasses frames. Durable, strong, and hypoallergenic, aluminum glasses frames soon came to be made by other companies in the United States who had the resources and technical know-how to do so.Īrt-Craft Optical Co., Inc. The finely made aluminum cat eye prescription glasses frames that Tura made at the start of the 1950s were initially a unique product of the American eyeglasses market at a time when other companies were using only small bands and slips of aluminum for decorative purposes on brows or temples.

Vintage cat eye prescription glasses