STATE Optical Co.

The grand mansions of South Kenwood Avenue feel born of different time, an oasis of gentility that hugs the University of Chicago campus. Nevertheless, as time marches on, their meaning evolves, once synonymous with Chicago's founding industrialists, now much more associated with a certain President. This combination style plays with the tension between tradition and progress, combining acetate and titanium materials, with colorways that echo the building materials Chicago was built on - wood, brick, and steel.