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Acetate, metal, titanium, carbon fiber and natural materials can change the weight, structure and visual balance of the same frame in different ways. In mixed material eyewear, those differences become most important where one material meets another, so the construction needs to be understood before sampling begins.

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Three mixed material eyewear styles with varied front, temple and hardware combinations

COLLECTION

Mixed Material Eyewear Collection

Different material pairings solve different structural, weight and visual problems. In custom mixed material eyewear, the front, bridge, temples and detail areas need to be judged by how the materials meet, not by the pairing alone.

Acetate with Metal or Titanium Sunglasses

These custom mixed material sunglasses use acetate for the more substantial visible sections, with metal or titanium carrying finer structural details. The material pairing changes how the bridge, rim, endpiece and temple connections need to be resolved across the frame.

The thick acetate endpiece changes abruptly to an open-slot metal temple, making the section difference visible at the hinge.
Custom mixed-material sunglasses with a dark acetate surround, gradient lenses and exposed metal bridge details inside the front.
From behind, the slim metal temple and lens-mounting hardware remain distinct from the thicker acetate outer frame.

SAM-B3796

Acetate Front with Metal
Temples

A substantial acetate front changes to a much finer metal structure at the endpiece. The exposed connection makes alignment and the change in thickness especially visible from the side.

Acetate · Metal

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Mixed-material eyewear with patterned acetate surrounding the dark oval lenses and a fine metal inner rim visible inside.
The straight-on view reveals a clear double outline: patterned acetate outside, fine metal immediately inside and a compact bridge at the center.
The multicolor acetate pattern continues from the rounded front into the temple, keeping the material direction visible across the side.

SAM-B4626

Patterned Acetate with Metal Inner Rim

Patterned acetate defines the outer profile, while a fine metal rim follows the lens opening. Their visible spacing and alignment become part of the frame design.

Acetate · Metal

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A compact titanium endpiece links the thick acetate lens rim to the much finer temple, concentrating the junction beside the lens.
Custom acetate and titanium eyewear with dark acetate lens rims, gradient lenses and an exposed titanium bridge across the front.
Slim titanium temples extend behind the thicker acetate rims, emphasizing the difference in section thickness from front to side.

SAT-B6395

Acetate Rims with Titanium
Structure

Dark acetate adds volume around the lenses, while fine titanium keeps the structure visually light. Their junction requires clean alignment despite different material thicknesses.

Acetate · Titanium

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Acetate with Metal or Titanium Optical Frames

In these mixed material optical frames, acetate defines much of the visible front or browline while metal or titanium provides finer rim, bridge or temple structures. Because the lenses remain clear, spacing, profile changes and material junctions are especially easy to read.

The thick acetate endpiece meets a narrow decorative metal temple without hiding the joint, making the material handoff easy to inspect.
Dark translucent acetate shapes the upper front while the fine gold-tone bridge and lower rim lighten the lens structure.
An engraved gold-tone temple extends from the acetate front and finishes with a darker acetate temple tip.

SAM-B5716

Acetate Front with Decorative Metal Temples

The acetate front provides most of the visible volume, while the finer metal bridge and temples introduce a contrasting structural line. At the endpiece, the metal connection has to meet the thicker acetate cleanly without interrupting the front profile.

Acetate · Metal

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Brown acetate defines the upper brow while a fine gold-tone metal rim continues below the lens and into the slim temple.
The straight-on view shows the spacing between the acetate brow, metal lower rim and central bridge across both lens openings.
A narrow gold-tone metal temple runs from the acetate endpiece to a contrasting acetate temple tip.

SAM-B6197

Acetate Browline with Metal
Rim

Acetate defines the upper front and endpieces, while a fine metal rim continues around the lower lens edge. The two outlines need consistent spacing so the browline reads as one controlled structure from the front and side.

Acetate · Metal

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Custom mixed material eyewear with a black acetate front and slim titanium temple structure
Black acetate and titanium optical frame with a rectangular front and paired endpiece pins
Mixed material eyewear showing a black acetate endpiece and twin-wire titanium temple construction

SAT-B4399

Rectangular Acetate Optical Frame with Titanium Temples

The rectangular acetate front gives the lens opening a clean, defined outline. Slim titanium temples reduce the visual weight at the sides, with the material transition clearly exposed at the endpiece.

Acetate · Titanium

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Laminated Acetate and Metal Eyewear

Metal defines the main structure in these mixed-material eyewear styles, while laminated acetate is introduced around selected rim, brow and temple areas. Each acetate section changes the local thickness, color and edge profile, so its junction with the metal has to be resolved as part of the frame geometry. These examples show three different ways that transition can be carried through an optical frame.

Round laminated acetate lens rims sit within an orange-tone metal structure, with the bridge and outer frame remaining visibly separate.
Green laminated acetate traces both lens openings, while the metal bridge and outer frame remain visible as a separate structural layer.
A fine metal temple leaves the acetate-rimmed front and ends in a patterned material section, creating two material changes along the side.

SAM-B6113

Round Metal Frame with Laminated Acetate Rims

Laminated acetate follows the round lens openings while the metal bridge and temples remain exposed. The two materials meet around the outer rim, making alignment between the acetate profile and metal structure especially visible.

Metal · Laminated Acetate

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Custom eyewear using burgundy metal geometry with laminated acetate concentrated along the upper lens edges.
Patterned acetate breaks the upper rim into distinct color sections while the burgundy metal outline remains continuous below.
The fine metal temple transitions into patterned acetate near its end, separate from the laminated acetate used across the front.

SAM-B4238

Geometric Metal Frame with Laminated Acetate Brow Accents

The metal front defines the main geometric outline, while patterned acetate is concentrated along the upper lens edges and temple ends. Because the acetate stops and starts within the same front, its edge placement becomes part of the frame proportion.

Metal · Laminated Acetate

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Several metal-to-acetate boundaries appear around the front, showing how multiple laminated pieces are distributed rather than used as one continuous rim.
Custom mixed-material eyewear with a lime metal frame and multicolor laminated acetate placed around the upper and outer lens edges.
From the rear, the multicolor acetate sections show their depth around the corners while the lime metal structure stays visible between them.

SAM-B4489

Color-Blocked Metal Frame with Laminated Acetate Inserts

Laminated acetate is placed around selected upper and outer lens edges, creating several material transitions within one front. The metal outline still controls the overall geometry, so the acetate sections need to remain aligned with that structure.

Metal · Laminated Acetate

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Horn with Metal or Titanium in Mixed Material Eyewear

Horn introduces visible tonal variation and a surface character that contrasts with metal and titanium. In mixed-material eyewear, a key design issue is how those materials meet: junction geometry, alignment and the transition from front to temple need to work as one frame structure.

The gold-tone side fitting ends immediately beside the lens, where it meets a darker horn temple section at a compact visible joint.
Custom eyewear pairing rimless lenses with fine gold-tone metal hardware and dark horn sections along the temples.
The dark horn section provides most of the temple volume while the fine metal structure remains exposed closer to the lens.

SHM-B6199

Rimless Metal Frame with Horn Temples

Here, the rimless front is carried by the metal structure, while dark horn sections continue the temples. Their junction is concentrated beside the lenses, making the side connection and alignment visible.

Horn · Metal

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The angled view shows how the horn brow sits above the metal lower rim and where their profiles converge at the outer corner.
Horn follows the upper lens contour while a fine metal rim completes the lower edge, leaving both materials visible from the front.
A horn browline continues into the outer corner before handing off to a slim metal temple, creating a clear change in thickness at the connection.

SHM-B5827

Horn Brow with Metal
Rim

Two materials share the same front: horn forms the upper brow, while a fine metal rim completes the lower lens shape. This puts the outer corners and rim alignment directly in view.

Horn · Metal

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The round horn front carries most of the visible volume, while the titanium side structure remains deliberately fine and exposed behind it.
Custom mixed-material eyewear with a round horn front and fine titanium temples extending behind the frame.
A narrow titanium temple enters the horn front through a small outer fitting, concentrating the material transition at the endpiece.

SHT-B4553

Horn Front with Titanium
Temples

The thicker horn front changes to fine titanium temples at the outer connection. Because the material transition is exposed, its alignment and proportion can be checked directly from the side.

Horn · Titanium

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Wood, Metal & Acetate in Mixed Material Eyewear

Wood changes the surface character of a frame, while metal allows finer rims, bridges and connection points. Adding acetate introduces another color and thickness variable. In these mixed-material eyewear structures, the key issue is how the materials meet: junction geometry, component fit and the transition from front to temple need to be resolved as part of the frame rather than treated as separate decorative choices.

At the outer corner, the wood brow flows directly into a broad wood temple while the metal lens rim remains exposed below.
A shaped wood brow follows the upper lens contour while a fine metal rim carries the lower half of each lens.
Sculpted wood sits above fine metal lens rims in this mixed-material browline construction, with the two materials remaining visible across the front.
From behind, wood temples, metal lens rims and nose-pad hardware show how the rear structure is distributed across the frame.
The full wood temple profile extends almost continuously from the endpiece, emphasizing grain direction and taper along the side.

SW-B6873

Wood with Metal Browline Frame

A shaped wood upper section sits above the finer metal rim, making the material transition part of the front profile. The connection needs to remain visually clean where the two structures meet around the outer front.

Wood · Metal

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Wood, the metal lens rim and patterned acetate meet at the outer corner, making this endpiece the key three-material junction.
Custom mixed-material eyewear combining a wood upper front, fine metal lens rims and patterned acetate temples.
The front view separates the material roles clearly: wood shapes the brow, metal completes the lens rims and patterned acetate remains visible behind.
From the rear, patterned acetate temples cross behind the wood brow and fine metal lens rims, showing all three materials in one assembly.
Patterned acetate carries the side profile, while wood and metal remain concentrated around the front connection.

SW-B5314

Wood , Metal with Acetate Frame

Acetate moves the color contrast into the temples while wood and metal define the front. With three materials in one frame, the side transition and component alignment become more visible and need to read as one construction.

Wood · Metal · Acetate

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A broad wood upper contour projects beyond the thin metal lower rims, making the difference in material thickness visible across the front.
Wood spans the upper front while separate metal rims and bridge hardware carry the lens openings below, concentrating the material change around the center and corners.
The broad dark wood temple keeps the material surface visible along the side, with the metal rim ending beneath the brow at the front.
Warm wood grain runs continuously across the upper front while the metal rims preserve a lighter lower lens outline.
Crossed wood temples sit behind the metal rims, revealing how the broad side pieces align with the narrower front hardware from the rear.

SW-B4425

Wood with Metal Contour Frame

Here the wood forms a broader upper contour while the metal rim completes the lower lens shape. The contrast makes alignment between the two materials especially visible across the bridge and outer corners.

Wood · Metal

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MATERIAL ARCHITECTURE

Mixed Materials Can Enter the Frame in Different Ways

Mixed material eyewear showing a component junction and feather detail incorporated within acetate

Some mixed-material frames join separately made components. Others incorporate a second material within acetate before the sheet is machined into the frame. The difference is where the material relationship is created: at a component junction or within the material itself.

The manufacturing route depends on whether the second material is joined as a finished component or incorporated before machining. That distinction changes how the later finishing and assembly steps need to be planned.

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WHERE MATERIALS MEET

How Material Junctions Shape Custom Mixed Material Eyewear

Different material pairings create different junction problems. In custom mixed material eyewear, thickness, surface character and component geometry need to stay visually and structurally coherent where one material meets another.

Mixed material eyewear with acetate front and metal junction details

Acetate & Metal
Junction

Acetate gives the front its visual mass, while the metal elements introduce a thinner structural line. Where the two meet, profile height and spacing need to stay controlled so the transition reads as one frame rather than two unrelated parts.

Mixed material eyewear combining buffalo horn with titanium components

Horn & Titanium
Transition

Buffalo horn brings natural tone and material depth, while titanium keeps the adjoining structure visually lighter. The transition needs to respect both the horn profile and the position of the titanium components so neither material feels forced into the other.

Mixed material eyewear with floral acetate front and decorative metal temple detail

Floral Acetate & Metal Integration

Floral acetate already carries strong visual variation across the frame surface. Metal details should therefore support the construction without competing with the material pattern, especially where the temple hardware meets the laminated front.

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