Masahiro Maruyama is a Japanese designer who conceives every frame as an 'unfinished' work of art — his guiding concept is 'unfinished art'. The idea is that absolute perfection is unattainable and that true beauty resides precisely in this incompleteness. Every frame bears visible signs of the creative process: deliberate irregularities, studied asymmetries, traces of the designer's hand.
The collections carry names that tell of creative processes and artistic concepts: 'Kintsugi' (the Japanese art of repairing with gold), 'Sculpt', 'Doodle', 'Broken', 'Collage', 'Dessin'. Each name is a precise aesthetic program. The frames are entirely handmade in Japan, using techniques that require extraordinary artisanal skill.
The most important international recognition came with the Silmo d'Or Grand Prix in Paris — the highest award in the international eyewear world. A prize that consecrates Masahiro Maruyama not only as one of the best eyewear designers in the world, but as a true artist whose medium is the frame.
Masahiro Maruyama is distributed through a highly selective network of boutiques worldwide. It is not a brand for everyone — it is a brand for those who consider eyewear an artistic expression, for those seeking something that goes beyond function and fashion to enter the territory of applied art.