Donate your used eyeglasses!

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There are over 15,000 eyeglasses that together we have donated over the past 30 years!

   

A heartfelt thank you to those who deposit their used eyeglasses in the special box every day and to those who devote their free time to sorting and cataloging these items, giving a smile to those who cannot afford them.

Since 1993 we have delivered, through some major collection centers such as AIDO, Don Orione Foundation, One Sight Foundation and for the past few years Lions, thousands of new and recycled eyeglasses to numerous charities around the world.

Customers often ask us: But where do they go?

From today, thanks to a dedicated service by Lions Clubs International , will allow us to know the destination by simply registering the WhatsApp number and indicating the city or province of pick-up.

Donating is a sign of love, and now as never before also toward our planet…

                               

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Teddy Bears and nearsightedness

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We thank our lovely customer Rosarita Meneghetti for the collection of Teddy Bears that crowns the window dedicated to myopia in children and the promising ophthalmic solution to prevent its uncontrolled worsening.

Read more at our page dedicated to this very timely topic: https://www.otticavascellari.it/controllo-della-miopia/

Ms. Rosarita’s love for these soft toys has turned into a real passion for restoration and production of these teddy bears. In the window we can recognize the four-eyed teddy bear, the love bear (1920), the retired teddy bear and a lovable little elephant that as soon as it was displayed attracted the attention of a little boy of about 7 years old who was intent on buying it as a gift for his elephant-loving mother!

For any such requests I recommend you visit: www.orsiavenezia.com

         

Once upon a time and there will always be St. Mark’s

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This month’s window is dedicated to the exhibition “Once Upon a Time and There Will Always Be St. Mark’s“, on display at the Olivetti store designed by renowned Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa.

Organized by FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano with the St. Mark’s Square Association in collaboration with the Carlo Montanaro Archive / La Fabbrica del Vedere , it presents to the public fifty etchings, lithographs, photographs and film stills of St. Mark’s Square and the surrounding area. Some of these usable even with anaglyphic glasses for three-dimensional vision.

The Exhibition curated by friend collector and film historian Carlo Montanaro, illustrates through the works in his collection, all the stages of image processing since it is possible to reproduce them, focusing on a subject that is always the same and always different: St. Mark’s Square.

We proudly point out that among the exhibited works it is possible to observe a very rare allegory of Venice as seen from the basin of St. Mark’s, from a German publication, which reminds us how much OPTICS was also held in consideration among the arts practiced in Venice in the very early 1700s.  The print does not appear so far to have been published in any work devoted to the history of optics and spectacles and is in our private collection.

The exhibition is open to the public from February 14 until February 26, 2023.