Waiting For The Sun | Artful Wooden Sunglasses

Antoine and Julien got to know each other in Bretagne during the autumn of 1999. Soon they became friends and even roommates when they both arrived in Paris a few years later. One night, when they had returned from holiday, they challenged each other to design wooden sunglasses at an affordable price point. After a few years of developing, they finalised their project by launching a small collection, just before Julien’s departure for Australia: Waiting For The Sun was born! The brand quickly encountered success, mostly in Japan and Australia, but was also exported to the US. After this Europe and its network of opticians confirmed the brand as a durable leader in wooden frames. In October 2012 they moved the headquarters of the company and decided to turn it into a livable area in which their different passions would be able to find their home. This was the birth of their concept store WAIT. As a mix of surf, art, brands of their friends, design objects, WAIT is also the heart of W/SÜN, and the place where friends meet at night, a place to live and to express oneself. Antoine and Julian also launched themselves as designers of ready to wear collections under the WAIT brand to produce exclusive clothing lines, made in Bretagne.