The meticulous craft behind MYKITA’s polished steel frames
Before a MYKITA frame reaches your face, its stainless steel undergoes a rigorous sequence of refinement. Each surface is painstakingly polished, preparing the metal for the final treatments that define the house's signature aesthetic.
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The brilliance of a MYKITA frame begins long before assembly. What catches the eye in those first moments of wear owes everything to the meticulous choreography of the workshop: the polishing, the layering of treatments, the calibration of finish that transforms raw stainless steel into something luminous and deliberate.
The process starts with polishing, one of the earliest steps in MYKITA’s manufacturing sequence. The stainless steel frames move through the workshop, their surfaces gradually refined to a smoothness that becomes the foundation for everything that follows. This is not cosmetic flourish but structural necessity. The quality of this initial polish determines how subsequent treatments will adhere, how light will dance across the metal, how durable the final finish will be.
What emerges from this first stage then branches into two distinct pathways, each chosen according to the frame’s intended character. For metallic finishes, the steel receives a PVD coating, a process that bonds a thin layer of precious metal compounds to the surface, creating depth and longevity in colours ranging from gold through to rose and gunmetal. For frames destined to carry colour accents, artisans apply hand lacquered finishes, building translucent layers that sit on the polished substrate like watercolour on paper, allowing the shimmer of the steel beneath to contribute its own subtle light.
This layered approach to surface treatment reflects MYKITA’s philosophy: that eyewear is neither purely industrial nor purely decorative, but rather an object where precision engineering and aesthetic intention must exist in perfect equilibrium. The smooth, almost mirror like quality of the polished steel is not an end in itself but a canvas, a beginning, a promise of the refinement to come.
Imagery courtesy of MYKITA (@mykitaofficial).