Imago | Ogami, Imago
Our Philosophy
Since the beginning of this year, every frame’s temple features a spiral, the so-called Shiva-Eye —
a symbol for infinite movement and eternal recurrence. The Shiva-Eye’s spiral form signifies constant development, mental mobility and positive energy—it constantly revolves around its origin yet develops incessantly—it never loses touch with its roots yet it moves with determination toward the future.
All these are qualities we strive for when designing our frames.
We do not want to lose sight of a collection’s basic idea, yet keep an eye out for present influences we can incorporate while turning our ”third eye“ toward the future.
Imago History
1990 Rainer Laepple takes over from optical distributor Alfred Gassner (distributor of the Italian brands Gambini and Divina) and starts out his business in an 80-square-meter basement office in Munich-Ramersdorf.
1991 The company moves into a 160-square-meter basement office and introduces the first three IMAGO models—UNO, DUE, TRE.
1992 Company is renamed into ”IMAGO THE ITALIAN EYEWARE CONNECTION GMBH“. IMAGO is Latin and means ”shape, idea, imagination, silhouette, vision, image“.
Distribution of the collection in 25 countries all over the world via exclusive wholesalers.
1995 Company is renamed into „IMAGO THE GERMAN EYEWARE CONNECTION GMBH“ and moves to a 360-square-meter ground floor office in Oberhaching.
1996 IMAGO’s exclusive ladies’ collection OGAMI is introduced at MIDO in Milan.
1998 IMAGO’s titanium collection TITAGO is introduced at MIDO.
1999 The puristic design of IMAGO’s i-spax collection is introduced at MIDO.
2000 Marco Finster, previously sales manager at Pro-Design, joins IMAGO as a partner. In February the company moves to Valley/Oberlaindern—30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Munich—into a 880-square-meter converted farm building.
2001 Cooperation with ogi, Minneapolis begins. IMAGO distributes the collection in Europe, Australia and Africa.
2002 The collection IMAGO-XS targeting especially teenagers is introduced, followed in
2003 by IMAGO-XXS, the kids’ collection.
2002 The memory-spax system is introduced—a sensational success which was only increased in
2003 by the introduction of memory-flex and was continued in
2005 with memory-twix.
Introduction of PROJECT ONE, a multifocal collection made of 100% beta-titanium.
IMAGO begins distributing the collection Vanni by Nico-Design, Torino in Germany.
2007 Construction of a new showroom and of a new exhibition booth.
2007 The new collection memory-clap is introduced.
2008 IMAGO’s new collections PIX and i-plain are introduced at OPTI in Munich.
Please, see the company website at www.imago-eyewear.de
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