DAVIDSNOW makes sunglasses by hand in Tbilisi, one pair at a time, with no factory and no machine to fall back on. He numbers his pieces instead of naming them, because a name tells you a story before you've seen the thing, and he'd rather the design be what you remember. What he's after is harder to manufacture than a shape. He wants work that doesn't belong to any single moment, that you could recognize across a room without ever seeing a logo. We talked about where that instinct comes from, what it costs to make every piece by hand, and how a designer figures out what he's building by building it.

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