Each model is created with the same care that a tailor devotes to the creation of a custom-made suit; it is the child of the designer’s creativity, shaped by his skill and infused with sentiment, so that it illuminates the face on which it rests.
Piero Massaro entrusts the realization of his eyeglasses only to the capable hands of artisans working alongside him, that must perform with almost obsessive precision.
In 2014, after an initial nomination in 2012, he was awarded a prestigious special prize by the international jury of Silmo D’Or. He lives and works in Veneto, but his bond with his native land, Sicily, is very strong and his origins are sometimes almost touchable in the colors he chooses for the acetate, that seem to perfume of oranges, almonds, pistachio nuts …