Little stories from our major customers
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
A customer, Mr. Saad, who came to discover our Meyrowitz Paris boutique and our collection of exclusive glasses, told us that the eminent Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding member of Pakistan, was, 100 years ago, a loyal customer of our house .
Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah wore the famous SACHA, a round frame from the 20s, like Sacha Guitry and Georges Mandel, still in the collection today.
What an honor to have our glasses in a good place at the museum in Karachi, Pakistan, in the space dedicated to the personal effects of Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Thanks again to Mr. Saad for bringing us this beautiful story.
We would like to take advantage of this post to remind you that you can come and visit our museum space in the basement of our Parisian store. The visit is guided, free, by appointment.
Making an appointment to visit the Meyrowitz Museum is here.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was one of the illustrious clients of the Meyrowitz house since 1908.
Suffering from cataracts, Meyrowitz had made blue lenses for him which somewhat improved his color perception. He had adapted to his eye disease and was able to continue his painting by relying on his memory and residual near vision. Things could have been different if he had agreed to the operation straight away.
He expressed himself thus on this subject : “I see blue, I no longer see red, I no longer see yellow, it bothers me terribly because I know that these colors exist, because I know that on my palette there is red, yellow , there is a special green, there is a certain purple, I no longer see them as I used to see them, and yet I remember very well the colors they gave. »
Encouraged by George Clémenceau, another client of Meyrowitz, he had an eye operation in 1922. Monet was not as satisfied as the doctor with his operation, he was even disappointed and disturbed. He would therefore do everything to improve the vision of the other still seeing eye which he used intermittently to paint or to read. Thanks to wearing special glasses, Monet gradually regained the use of his right eye.
Nowadays, Monet's sight would have been saved, with a cataract operation that has become very common and simple. But then he would never have painted his last Giverny masterpieces. He would not have opened the way to abstraction in painting characterized by colors that blend into each other, a lack of rational form and perspective as in 'The House seen from the rose garden, 1922-1924.
Source: blog “Painters and health” http://peintresetsante.blogspot.com/2012/09/la-cataracte-operee-de-monet.html
Meyrowitz invites you to rediscover this artist's very particular relationship with colors, as part of the MONET -MITCHELL retrospective at the Louis Vuitton Foundation (5/10/2022 to 27/02/2023).
Facing the same landscapes, that of the banks of the Seine, the two artists share an acute sensitivity to light and colors, the play of which constitutes the foundation of their art.
We encourage you to go and see the fascinating work of these two artists at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, made of remarkable visual and thematic connections.
You can also, during a visit to Meyrowitz, ask to visit the Glasses Museum and see the painter's glasses and one of his handwritten letters.
