Google on August 4, 2023, celebrated the life of Altina Schinasi, an american artist, designed and inventor, who is known for designing the Harlequin eye glass frame or ‘cat eye’ frame. She was born on this day in 1907 in Manhattan, New York to immigrant parents. “Her mother was a native of Salonica (then in the Ottoman Empire) and her father was a Sephardic Jewish Turk ,” Google noted.
Apart from the famous ‘cat eye’ frame, Ms. Schinasi had patented many inventions throughout her career and produced documentaries too, Google pointed.
Ms. Schinasi studied painting in Paris and after returning to the US, she studied art at The Art Students League in New York and took a position as a window dresser for multiple stores on Fifth Avenue.
