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In 1935 his son Charles Goldsmith entered the firm with the aim of making glasses a fashion item. From the company’s offices in Poland Street, his sons A. Oliver and Ray Goldsmith built upon the company’s reputation for attention-grabbing designs and solicited celebrity endorsement for their products. Key clients included Lord Snowdon, the actor Diana Dors, Princess Grace of Monaco and Diana, Princess of Wales. \r\n\r\nA Oliver Goldsmith  created this sunglasses frame, titled ‘Tennis Racket’, in 1985, as a re-design of T.243 E-1990, the original tennis racket design from 1956. This frame reflects fashion’s enthusiasm for a black and white palette. They were sold with two pairs of lenses: one etched with a pattern of tennis strings, the other plain.This design is also housed in the collection of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.","physicalDescription":"Black and white plastic sunglasses framed with eye pieces shaped like a pair of tennis rackets. 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