Before founding his label, Nirvan Javan trained and worked as an optician, the sort who not only adjusts frames but grinds and edges lenses by hand. That background isn’t a romantic detail; it’s why every design starts from how the glasses feel and function before they’re sketched into shape. The Swiss-Iranian designer grew up in Switzerland but travelled extensively, absorbing the restrained geometry of Zurich, the architectural harmony of Tokyo, and the layered textures of Tehran’s bazaars. It’s a mix that resists category, precision engineering with a human hand, global influence without the “design tourism” gloss.
Pure Clarity without Tint
Nirvan Javan’s lenses are produced in Japan, where optical standards rank among the most uncompromising in the world. Each lens is engineered to preserve light in its natural state, with no warming amber or cooling blue filters, so the world you see remains entirely true to itself. This neutral clarity isn’t only aesthetic, it reduces eye fatigue across long days and sustained focus. The difference becomes most apparent the moment you return to ordinary tinted lenses, the world feels subtly altered, less exact, less real.
Nirvan Javan sources his acetate from Mazzucchelli 1849 in Italy, a family-run mill that’s been producing cellulose acetate for over 175 years. The raw cotton and wood pulp used in their formula are naturally hypoallergenic, and each batch is aged for at least 60 days, sometimes longer, to stabilise colour and density. This slow curing prevents the micro-warping that can throw off a frame’s alignment over time. It’s the sort of behind-the-scenes step that never makes it to a swing tag, but it’s the reason the fit feels the same in year five as it did on day one.
"It is only when walking through distant destinations, unprejudiced and without preconceptions, that we experience foreign cultures and ways of living to their fullest."
