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CUSTOM MADE BUFFALO HORN AND WOODEN SPECTACLE FRAMES
'I think a face deserves better than metal and plastics -
I think a face deserves more than confection'
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DESIGN METHOD After an interview and a photoportrait Kees Wennekendonk produces three designs in the form of fullsize coloured drawings on sheet, which can be placed on the portrait. The client can decide at his leasure which corresponds to her/his requirements. |
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MATERIALS Kees Wennekendonk only uses 100% legal and natural materials in the manufacture of his frames. The correct material will depend on the personality and nature of the client they are intended for. Materials range from the more obvious wide range of woods to the use of Indian Buffalohorn, Scottish Highlanderhorn and even 17.000 year old Mammoth tooth. |
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STYLING Each set of frames is personally handcrafted by Wennekendonk to suit the physical atributes of the client, and styled to suggest those more etherial and personal qualities that are unique to every client. You can view images of the "making off" here. |
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PRICES A horn or wooden pair of glasses go from 1500€ inclusive Dutch taxes and exclusive transport costs. You pay 50% at the start of the assignment, and 50% on delivery. Other prices depend on the specifications of the design. |
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View portraits of customers with their designs
You can read an interview with Kees Wennekendonk here.
If you wish Kees Wennekendonk
to produce a frame fitted to your features and character, without travelling
to Holland, this can be arranged in two manners. The first is through sending a photoportrait "Full Frontal" to the contact adress with your message. You will immediately get a question list and the information you need send back to your adress. The second is, as a reaction on foreign interest, signing in on limited editions of a some of his designs. Apart from those with the titles Shine, Spitfite, Sunny, Highlander and Albatross, which can be found on Gallery I, there will be new designs available for this purpose. The editions will be limited to 10 signed and numbered frames. Please contact mail@keeswennekendonk.nl for the latest developements. |
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