The Red Dot Design Award is one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions. Its distinction, the Red Dot, is internationally recognized as one of the most sought-after marks of excellence in design.
Entries are evaluated by a jury of independent designers, design professors, and industry journalists. Each product is assessed individually before the jury selects the final award winners.
This year, the jury honoured The Refined by Silhouette. With this achievement, Silhouette brings its total to 103 awards, while all its brands combined have received 145 awards.
The Refined: Where Titanium Meets Art
Silhouette’s January collection, The Refined, reimagines what titanium eyewear can be. Shaped by sixty years of innovation, it transforms advanced titanium into wearable works of art – blending technical excellence with sculptural fluidity. Every detail reflects Silhouette’s mastery of precision and lightness, demonstrating how titanium can serve as both structure and expression.
At the heart of The Refined is an architectural approach to design: clean lines, seamless transitions, and a balance between strength and delicacy. Crafted from ultralight titanium, each frame highlights the material’s remarkable potential – offering exceptional flexibility, durability, and comfort in a design that feels almost weightless.
Much like Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which transformed high-tech titanium into an icon of modern art, Silhouette captures a similar interplay of light, form, and movement in The Refined. Reflecting the brand’s commitment to performance and purity, each piece features finely sculpted titanium temples and a precision-crafted bridge, ensuring lasting comfort, flexibility, and stability.
Expertly engineered and handcrafted in Austria – where both frames and lenses are produced under one roof – Silhouette seamlessly combines precision engineering, visionary design, and bespoke lens innovation. The result is a refined expression of Austrian craftsmanship, where lightness meets luxury in its purest form.
Silhouette is distributed in Canada by COS.