CAri ZALloni - AKA. (CAZAL)
Cari Zalloni, the brains behind the the illustrious CAZAL line holds rank with some of the greats in eyewear creation; so many styles, throughout the 1980s-early 2000s.
Beginning in 1960, Vienna where he studied, it wasn’t until 1962 that he began designing. First in Siena, Italy to design furniture. Then, shifting to Germany to design decorative glass. It wasn’t until 1975 that CAZAL was incepted. Combining CA[ri] ZAL[loni], and with the financing of an entrepreneur by the name of Gunter Bottacher, CAZAL found its wheelhouse as a great revolutionizer. From then ’til upon his death in 2012, the man produced designs that every eyewear aficionado adores. There isn’t one collector that doesn’t possess a favorite pair of CAZAL‘s.
When Cari Zalloni died in 2012 from complications following heart surgery a tribute letter from “friends, colleagues and admirers” at CAZAL Germany was released.
“For 50 years, you set the standards in your true passion: styling, product design and art. You created furniture, styled glasses, designed skis and ski boots, made snowboards popular, put your stamp on products and left us pictures with an unmistakable mark. You gave a new face to eyewear through which we see the world. You were the first to create design objects of desire out of vision aids. You revived and reinterpreted material, function and form like no other, creating an international brand sold to this day under your name in more than 60 countries.”
